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1845.  -^1^-  1890. 

(©OMMEMOI^ATION 

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BY  THE 

Rey.  Moses  Drury  Hoge,  d.d.,  lld., 

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51^0  Seeopd  presbyteriaij  <5l?ure^, 

OF  THE 

Qity  of  l^iel^moi^d,  l/irgiijia. 


Pbintkdbt 

"Whtttet  &  Sheppeeson, 

Richmond,  Va. 

BOUKD  BY 

Raitdolph  &  English, 
Richmond,  Va. 


Contents. 


Prefatobt,  7 

The  Ladies'  Society  : 

Officers, 11 

Keception  Committee, 11 

Supper  Committee,  12 

Committee  on  Decorations, 12 

Biographical  Sketch,  from  the  Richmond  Dispatch^ 13-29 

"A  Notable  Anniversaey, "  from  T?ie  State, 29 

From  TJie  Southern  Ohurchman, 31 

Programme  of  Exercises  at  the  Academy  of  Music, 32 

Commemorative  Services. — Description  from  the  Richmond  Dis- 
patch,   _ -.37-43 

The  Exercises  : 

Prayer, 44 

Kesolutions  of  the  Presbyterian  Pastors'  Association, 47 

Address  of  Rev.  Dr.  HaU, 50 

Address  of  Bishop  "Wilson, 54 

Address  of  Dr.  Curry, 66 

Address  of  Bishop  Randolph, 74 

Address  of  Dr.  Kerr, 85 

Response  by  Dr.  Hoge, 93 

The  Reception, 102 

Programme, 103 

Press  Comments,  .__ .__ 109-125 

Letters  of  Congratulation, 127-143 


Prefatory. 


/^w  T  a  meeting  of  the  Session  of  the  Second  Presby- 
y^  terian  Church  of  Eichmond,  Virginia,  held  Jan- 
^    ^uary  5,  1890,  the  Kev.  L.  B.  Tumbull  presid- 
ing, the  following  action  was  had : 

"Whereas,  The  27th  February,  1890,  wiU  be  the  forty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  iQstallation  of  Rev.  Moses  D.  Hoge, 
D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  as  pastor  of  this  church,  a  period  which 
measures  at  the  same  time  the  separate  existence  of  the 
church  and  the  pastoral  Hfe  of  Dr.  Hoge, 

"Resolved,  That  we  deem  it  most  fitting  that  suitable 
services  be  held  on  the  approaching  anniversary  commemo- 
rative of  the  event,  and  expressive  of  thankfulness  to  God 
for  the  signal  blessings  he  has  bestowed  upon  the  pastoral 
relation  of  Dr.  Hoge  and  upon  his  varied  services  in  the 
cause  of  Christ; 

"Resolved,  That  Col.  Clement  R.  Barksdale,  Wm.  W. 
Henry  and  Marshall  M.  Gilliam  be  appointed  a  committee, 
who  shall  communicate  this  action  to  Dr.  Hoge,  and  shall 
arrange  the  commemorative  services  in  a  manner  agreeable 
to  him." 


S  COMMEMOKATIYE  SERVICES. 


As  soon  as  this  action  became  public,  commiinica- 
tions  appeared  in  the  city  papers  urging  that  the  cele- 
bration be  held  in  the  largest  public  hall  in  the  city,  in 
order  to  enable  the  many  friends  of  Dr.  Hoge  outside  of 
his  congregation  to  attend.  Accordingly,  the  Academy 
of  Music  was  selected,  and  Messrs.  Berger,  Leath  and 
Myers,  the  lessees,  politely  tendered  its  use,  with  ex- 
pressions of  deep  interest  in  the  proposed  services. 

The  Ladies'  Society  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  determined  to  tender  a  reception  in  the  lecture- 
room  of  the  church  after  the  services  at  the  Academy, 
to  which  the  entire  audience  should  be  invited.  They 
accordingly  appointed  committees  for  the  purpose. 
These  at  once  went  to  work,  and  met  with  the  heartiest 
sympathy  in  the  community.  A  number  of  the  mer- 
chants and  florists  of  the  city,  regardless  of  denomina- 
tion, pressed  them  to  accept  whatever  they  needed 
from  their  stores,  and  one  of  the  best  known  caterers 
tendered  his  personal  services  as  superintendent  of  the 
supper.  Every  article  of  food  needed  was  offered  with- 
out solicitation,  and  so  bountiful  was  the  supply,  that 
after  furnishing  a  repast  for  about  twelve  hundred 
guests,  there  was  a  considerable  quantity  left,  which 
was  distributed  among  some  of  the  charitable  institu- 
tions of  the  city. 


Prefatory.  9 


The  ladies  of  the  church  also  determined  to  make 
a  special  effort  to  supplement  the  fund  raised  for  the 
lot  and  chapel  for  the  Old  Market  Mission,  so  near  to 
the  heart  of  their  pastor,  and  succeeded  in  raising  two 
thousand  dollars,  which  ensured  the  success  of  the  en- 
terprise. 

The  Session  of  the  church  had  determined  some 
months  before  to  obtain  from  the  easel  of  the  distin- 
guished artist,  Wm.  Gail  Brown,  a  life-size  portrait  of 
Dr.  Hoge,  showing  three-quarters  of  his  figure.  This 
order  the  artist  executed  with  great  success,  and  a  mag- 
nificent painting  of  Dr.  Hoge,  in  the  attitude  of  a 
speaker,  was  completed  and  hung  up  in  the  lecture- 
room  the  evening  before  the  celebration,  where  it  is  to 
remain. 

Mr.  T.  D.  Wilkinson  of  the  choir  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  undertook  to  collect  a  special 
choir  for  the  occasion,  and  had  no  difficulty  in  securing 
about  forty  persons  from  the  several  choirs  in  the  city, 
who,  under  the  lead  of  Mr.  Walter  Mercer,  rendered  the 
music  at  the  Hall  in  an  admirable  manner. 

While  the  reception  was  taking  place,  Mr.  N.  B. 
Clapp  presided  at  the  church  organ,  and,  assisted  by 
some  of  the  best  vocalists  in  the  city,  delighted  the  au- 
dience with  music  of  the  highest  order. 


10  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


Invitations  had  been  extended  to  the  clergy  of  the 
-city,  and  to  many  of  Dr.  Hoge's  personal  friends 
throughout  the  country,  to  attend  the  celebration.  The 
responses  that  came  showed  a  warm  interest  in  the  oc- 
casion, and  several  gentlemen,  some  with  members  of 
their  families,  came  from  a  distance. 

The  Deacons  of  the  church  acted  as  ushers,  and 
among  these  was  the  venerable  George  Gibson,  one  of 
the  two  remaining  members  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  who  were  among  those  who  organized  it  in 
1845 ;  Mr.  Wm.  Edwards,  the  other  member  who  had 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  church,  was  too  fee- 
ble to  take  an  active  part  in  the  celebration,  and  has 
since  closed  a  long  life  of  eminent  piety,  and  entered 
into  his  rest. 

In  this  memorial  volume  it  has  been  the  aim  of  the 
committee  to  preserve,  as  far  as  possible,  the  commem- 
orative services,  and  the  impression  they  made  upon 

the  community. 

C.  E.  Barksdale, 

W.  W.  Henry, 

M.  M.  Gilliam, 

Coinrriittee, 


She  LiADIBS'  SOGIEIPY, 

MES.  T.  A.  PARKEK,  President. 
MES.  D.  TIDEMANN,  First  Vice-President 
MES.  L.  W.  BUEWELL,  Secrnid  Vice-President. 
MES.  B.  S.  HOWAED,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Mrs.  W.  W.  Henby,  Chairman  of  Committee. 
Mbs.  a.  T.  Haebis, 

MbS.  J.  J.   HiCKOK, 

Mbs.  Kate  G.  Ktlbt, 
Mbs.  James  Lyons, 
Mbs.  E.  C.  Mobton, 
Mbs.  M.  M.  MAxwEiiX,, 
Mbs.  T.  W.  Pembebton, 
Mbs,  W.  Scott, 
Mbs.  Howabd  Swinefobd, 
Mbs.  D.  Tidemann, 
Mbs.  E.  D.  Taylob, 
Mbs.  L.  B.  Tubnbull., 
Mbs.  Chables  Watkins, 
Mbs.  N.  M.  Wilson, 
Mbs.  John  B.  Young. 


Mrs.  p.  W.  McKinney, 
Mbs.  J.  HoGE  Tyuee, 
Mbs.  F.  Dallam  BabksdaTjT;, 
Mbs.  T.  H,  Ballabd, 
Mbs.  Alexandeb  Camebon, 
Mbs.  Miles  Caby, 
Mbs.  W.  T.  Cabbington, 
Mbs.  Col.  "W.  E.  Cutshaw, 
Miss  A.  T.  Daniel, 
Misses  C.  and  A.  Glasgow, 
Mbs.  Jackson  Guy, 
Mbs.  M.  M.  Gelliam, 
Mbs.  S.  H.  Hawes, 
Mbs.  M.  B.  Haebison, 
Miss  M.  M.  Gilliam. 


12  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


Mes.  W.  M.  Withees,     J 
Mrs.  L.  W.  Bubwell,     h    Chairmen. 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Blunt,  / 

Mrs.  T.  S.  Atkins,  Mrs.  Littleton  FrrzoEBAiiD, 

Mrs.  0.  E.  Barksdale,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Glover, 

Mrs.  J.  E.  Blair,  Mrs.  James  A.  Grigg, 

Mrs.  a.  C.  Bruce,  Mrs.  K  C.  Jones, 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Bigelow,  Mrs,  M.  V.  Kellogg, 

Mrs.  H.  G.  Cannon,  Mrs.  James  B.  Marshall, 

Mrs.  John  A.  Coke,  Mrs.  James  Pleasants, 

Mrs.  E.  a.  Catlin,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Pearoe, 

Mrs.  M.  T.  Clarke,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Parrish, 

Mrs.  F.  W.  Cone,  Miss  Jane  Read, 

Mrs.  M.  O.  Cralle,  Mrs.  Fanny  Seayres, 

Miss  E.  McD.  Crenshaw,  Mrs.  Charles  L.  Todd, 

Miss  E.  Crawford,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Vaughan, 

Mrs.  George  L.  Christian,  Miss  Bettie  "Wilson, 

Mrs.  Dr.  Farrar,  Mrs.  Chas.  Watkins. 

Cotntnttt^e  on  l^ecotatlon* 


Mrs.  George  Watt,      |      (.^^.y^,^. 


Mrs.  Manfred  Call, 

Mrs.  Frank  Binfoed,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Loving, 

Mrs.  T.  M.  Carrington,  Mrs.  James  Lyons, 

Miss  M.  G.  Crenshaw,  Mrs.  George  Lyon, 

Mrs.  a.  Dickenson,  Mrs.  Frank  Poits, 

Mrs.  a.  S.  Emmons,  Mrs.  George  Street, 

Mrs.  Kate  G.  Kilby,  Mrs.  D.  Tidemann. 


Dr.  Moses  D.  Hoge. 


The  Richmond  Dispatch  of  the  16th  of  February,  1890, 
contained  a  sketch  of  Dr.  Hoge,  which,  having  been  since 
somewhat  corrected  and  enlarged  by  W.  D.  Chesterman,  the 
editor  who  wrote  it,  is  as  follows: 

N  the  27th  of  February,  Kev.  Moses  D.  Hoge, 
D.  D.,  will  have  been  the  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  forty-five  years. 
He  is  the  only  pastor  this  church  ever  had.     It  was 
his  first  and  only  church. 

When  he  came  to  Richmond,  direct  from  the  theo- 
logical seminary,  the  lot  on  which  his  church  now  stands 
was  a  vacant  piece  of  ground.  He  gathered  the  little 
congregation,  which  first  worshipped  in  a  lecture-room, 
and  which  grew  until  it  became  necessary  to  erect  the 
church,  which  was  built  in  1848  and  greatly  enlarged 
in  1873.  Few  churches  in  the  city  have  a  membership 
80  large ;  none,  probably,  have  sent  out  more  branches. 


14  Commemorative  Services. 


and  not  many  have  equalled  it  in  its  contributions  to 
the  general  cause  of  spreading  the  gospel  at  home  and 
abroad. 

During  all  these  years  of  complicated  labor  his 
health  and  strength  have  been  wonderfully  spared  him, 
despite  a  most  prodigious  amount  of  work. 

Besides  the  performance  of  almost  innumerable,  but 
often  unnoticed,  pastoral  duties,  he  preaches  regularly 
twice  on  Sunday  and  every  Wednesday  night ;  often  is 
found  officiating  at  funerals  and  marriages,  attends 
many  board  and  committee  meetings,  and  yet  finds 
time  to  answer  scores  of  letters. 

Indeed,  he  has  distinguished  himself  almost  as  much 
as  a  writer  of  notes  and  letters — a  difficult  art — as  by 
preaching.  Not  one  man  in  a  thousand  can  seize  pen 
and  paper  and  on  the  instant  hurry  off  such  a  graceful 
note  as  Dr.  Hoge.  These  he  writes  in  great  numbers. 
Thousands  of  people  hold  them  as  precious  treasures. 
They  are  at  once  models  and  memorials. 

Dr.  Hoge's  residence  is  at  the  northeast  comer  of 
Main  and  Fifth  streets,  on  a  lot  adjoining  his  church. 
The  house  was  long  years  ago  the  home  of  Major 


Biographical  Sketch.  15 


Gibbon,  a  Eevolutionary  soldier,  who  led  the  forlorn 
hope  at  Stony  Point.  It  is  a  four-story  brick  build- 
ing, with  spacious  back  porches,  from  which  the  James; 
River  is  in  plain  view  as  it  winds  through  fertile  low- 
lands and  fringes  of  woods,  until  it  disappears  beyond 
historic  Drewry's  Bluff. 

The  Doctor's  study  is  in  the  hall-room  of  the  second 
floor.  Every  night  between  twelve  and  two  o'clock,  a& 
the  newspaper  reporters,  printers,  telegraph  operators, 
and  other  late  workers  climb  the  Main-street  hill  going 
to  their  homes  up  town,  they  look  up  to  the  window  of' 
this  room,  and  if,  as  is  generally  the  case,  they  see  a 
Hght  burning  there,  some  one  will  very  likely  say, 
"  Well,  we  are  better  off  than  Dr.  Hoge ;  he  isn't  through 
his  work  yet." 

Hours  of  Stud^^ 

He  is  a  late  worker.  In  the  far  hours  of  the  night, 
when  callers  no  longer  ring  the  door  bell;  when  the 
hurry  of  travel  is  over;  when  even  the  street-car  horses 
and  drivers  have  gone  to  rest ;  when  a  solemn  hush  holds 
the  city,  and  the  people  are  in  dreamland,  he  sits  down 
to  study,  and  finds  that  quiet  and  privacy  denied  him  in 
the  day ;  but  what  is  wonderful,  he  seems  to  rise  with 
the  sun.     At  any  rate,  about  seven  o'clock  he  is  seen 


16  Commemorative  Services. 


on  horse-back  galloping  along  country  roads  or  through 
by-paths  in  the  woods,  drinking  in  inspiration  for  those 
soul-refreshing  thoughts  that  illumine  his  discourses. 

These  are  his  studies  for  pictures  of  the  sun  dawn- 
ing upon  the  earth ;  of  birds  beginning  their  morning 
carols,  and  of  the  music  and  perfume  that  comes  from 
nature  when  the  murmuring  brooks  first  break  the  day's 
silence  and  the  dew  lies  sparkhng  upon  the  grass — 
studies  which  will  be  used  in  some  glorious  thanksgiv- 
ing to  the  Lord,  or  in  words  of  comfort  to  those  who 
have  strayed  into  the  despond  of  sin. 

It  is,  indeed,  as  a  comforter  that  the  Doctor  greatly 
excels.  His  illustrations  come  from  the  Bible  and  from 
nature,  and  his  language  soothes  the  aching  heart  and 
refreshes  the  fainting  wayfarer.  This  ability  to  com- 
fort is  one  of  his  great  gifts,  and  he  can  exercise  it  in 
giving  out  a  hymn,  in  selections  from  the  Scriptures,  in 
prayerful  petitions,  in  sermons,  and  in  his  quiet  talk — 
no  matter  whether  he  meets  one  in  our  crowded  streets 
or  in  the  dim  light  of  the  sick-room. 

Whether  on  horseback  or  afoot.  Dr.  Hoge  is  a  strik- 
ing figure.     He  is  full  six  feet  in  height,  straight  and 


Biographical  Sketch.  17 


lithe,  mtlioiit  a  pound  of  surplus  flesh.  He  has  the 
bearing  of  a  military  man,  but  with  the  air  of  gentle^ 
ness  substituted  for  sternness.  His  head  is  poised 
high  above  the  shoulders.  His  complexion  is  dark, 
and  for  many  years  he  has  worn  a  closely-trimmed 
moustache.  The  face  is  a  notable  one,  blending  piety 
and  intelligence,  sweetness  of  temperament  and  deli- 
cacy of  feeling. 

The  good  wife,  who  was  so  long  the  joy  of  the  Doc- 
tor's hfe,  has  been  lying  in  her  grave  in  Hollywood 
more  than  twenty-one  years.  His  four  children  still 
reside  with  him.  His  eldest  son,  Moses  D.,  Jr.,  is  a 
doctor  of  medicine,  and  the  youngest,  Hampden,  is  in 
a  business  employment.  His  daughter,  Mary  E.,  is  the 
vdie  of  M.  M.  Gilliam,  Esq.,  and  is  most  active  in  as- 
sisting her  father  in  his  work.  His  daughter,  Miss 
Bessie,  is  a  lovable  and  helpful  companion  of  the  doc- 
tor, and  also  takes  a  keen  and  active  interest  in  all  his 
church  work. 

There  is  no  more  unostentatious  man  in  Vii'ginia 
than  Dr.  Hoge,  but  this  celebration  having  been  deter- 
mined on  by  his  people,  he  looks  forward,  as  is  natural, 
to  the  27th  with  the  HveHest  interest.     Well  he  may. 


18  COMlVrEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


Congratulations  will  be  showered  upon  him  from  all 
quarters  of  the  globe.  Bishop  Randolph,  for  the  Epis- 
copalians ;  Bishop  Wilson,  for  the  Methodists;  Dr. 
Curry  for  the  Baptists,  and  other  equally  prominent 
men  for  other  denominations  and  for  other  bodies  of 
Christian  workers  ^dll  say  that  evening  how  beautiful 
has  been  his  ministry. 

This  anniversary  celebration  will  be  held  at  the 
Academy  of  Music  on  the  night  of  the  27th,  and  will 
last  about  two  hours,  after  which  Dr.  Hoge  Tvdll  re- 
ceive his  fi'iends  in  the  lecture  room  of  his  church — 
distant  four  squares.  To  make  the  room  suitable  for 
the  occasion  the  ladies  have  set  to  work  ^ith  great 
zeal. 

Altogether  the  occasion  ^dll  no  doubt  prove  a  land- 
mark in  our  local  annals. 

Eev.  Dr.  Moses  D.  Hoge  was  born  in  the  county  of 
Prince  Edward,  Virginia,  and  is  descended  on  his 
father's  side  from  ancestors  who  emigrated  from  Scot- 
land and  settled  in  Frederick  county,  Virginia,  in  1736, 
on  the  domain  of  Thomas  Lord  Fairfax,  of  colonial 
memory.  His  grandfather  was  Dr.  Moses  Hoge,  Presi- 
dent of  Hampden-Sidney  College,  one  of  the  best  men 


Biographical  Sketch.  19 


who  ever  lived,  and  one  of  the  most  eminent  among 
great  and  good  ministers  who  have  so  richly  blessed 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Virginia. 

John  Randolph  says  in  one  of  his  letters  that  he 
was  the  most  eloquent  man  he  ever  heard  in  the  pulpit 
or  out  of  it. 

m^inisUtinl  Sons. 

Three  of  his  sons  became  ministers  of  the  gospel, 
viz..  Dr.  James  Hoge,  of  Columbus,  O. ;  John  Blair 
Hoge,  of  Richmond,  Ya. ;  and  Samuel  Davies  Hoge, 
President  of  Athens  College,  Ohio.  The  last  named 
died  early  in  life,  leaving  two  sons,  who  became  minis- 
ters of  the  gospel,  the  younger  of  whom  was  the  late 
Rev.  W.  J.  Hoge,  D.  D.,  and  the  elder  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

On  the  maternal  side  Dr.  Hoge  is  descended  from 
the  family  of  Lacys,  who  emigrated  from  England  to 
Virginia  in  early  colonial  times. 

01  the  '^vxh^  of  Ji^nu 

His  grandfather  was  the  Rev.  Drury  Lacy,  D.  D., 
President  of  Hampden-Sidney  College,  a  minister  of 
great  eminence  and  worth.  Two  of  his  sons  became 
ministers — the  Rev.  William  S.  Lacy,  of  Louisiana,  and 
Rev.  Drury  Lacy,  D.  D.,  formerly  President  of  David- 


20  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


son  College,  and  late  of  Kaleigh,  N.  C.  Many  of  the 
remoter  descendants  of  both  Dr.  Hoge  and  Dr.  Lacy 
have  also  entered  the  office  of  the  ministry.  On  both 
sides,  therefore,  Dr.  Hoge  is  emphatically  of  the  tribe 
of  Levi. 

%n  Btcltmottd* 

Dr.  Hoge's  ministry  began  in  Eichmond  in  1844. 
His  church  was  bnilt  in  1848. 

Invitations  to  the  presidency  of  Hampden-Sidney 
College  and  other  Hterary  institutions;  to  become  a 
pastor  in  Lexington,  Ya.,  St.  Louis,  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  Nashville,  Philadelphia,  New  Orleans,  Charles- 
ton, and  elsewhere  have  never  tempted  him  from  the 
field  of  his  first  labors.  It  has  fallen  to  the  lot  of  few 
men  to  attract  such  congregations  as  habitually  attend 
his  ministry,  and  still  larger  wherever  he  goes  to  preach 
or  lecture. 

Jls  n  Confer  crate  dtaplmn* 

During  the  first  year  of  the  civil  war  Dr.  Hoge  was 
a  volunteer  chaplain  in  the  Camp  of  Instruction  (Camp 
Lee),  where  the  Exposition  buildings  now  stand.  He 
preached  to  the  soldiers  two  or  three  times  a  week 
without  discontinuing  his  services  in  his  own  church. 

In  1864  he  ran  the  blockade  from  Charleston,  and. 


Biographical  Sketch.  21 


went  to  England  by  way  of  Nassau,  Cuba,  and  St. 
Thomas,  to  obtain  Bibles  and  religions  books  for  the 
Confederate  army.  Lord  Shaftesbury,  the  president 
of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  gave  him  a 
hearty  welcome,  and  incited  him  to  make  an  address 
to  the  society  in  explanation  of  the  object  of  his  mis- 
sion. The  result  was  a  free  grant  of  10,000  Bibles, 
50,000  Testaments,  and  250,000  portions  of  the  Scrip- 
tures (single  Gospels,  Epistles,  etc.,  in  black,  glazed 
covers,  vnih.  red  edges  and  rounded  corners),  just  what 
was  most  convenient  to  put  in  the  soldiers'  pockets,  in 
aU  worth  about  £4,000. 

Dr.  Hoge  remained  during  the  T\inter  in  London 
superintending  their  shipment  by  the  blockade-runners 
to  the  Confederacy.  He  also  obtained  a  large  supply 
of  miscellaneous  religious  books  adapted  to  camp  life, 
which  were  sent  over  in  the  same  manner,  and  most  of 
them  came  in  safely. 

On  his  return  from  England  he  dehvered  an  address 
at  an  anniversary  of  the  Virginia  Bible  Society  in  St. 
Paul's  church  to  one  of  the  largest  audiences  ever  as- 
sembled in  that  spacious  building. 

By  invitation  of  the  Virginia  Legislature  he  de- 
livered an  oration  at  the  unveiling  of  the  Jackson 
statue,  presented  by  English  gentlemen  to  Virginia,  in 


22  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


October,  1875.  The  ceremony  occiirrecl  on  the  Capitol 
Square,  where  there  had  gathered  an  immense  throng 
of  people,  and  the  scenes  and  incidents  of  the  mem- 
orable day  are  yet  fresh  in  the  minds  of  hundreds  of 
Yirginians  who  were  present. 

Dr.  Hoge  has  often  been  appointed  to  positions  of 
honor  and  responsibihty  by  the  Southern  General  As- 
sembly of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1875  he  was 
unanimously  elected  to  the  moderator's  chair  in  the 
Assembly  which  met  in  St.  Louis.  In  1876,  in  the  As- 
sembly convened  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  he  advocated,  and 
carried  by  overwhelming  majorities,  two  measures 
greatly  opposed  at  that  time  by  some  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished members.  These  were  the  establishment 
of  "fraternal  relations" — not  "organic  union" — with 
the  Northern  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the  sending  of 
commissioners  to  represent  the  Southern  Church  in  the 
AUiance  of  the  Keformed  Churches  of  the  world.  In 
1877  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Pan-Presb^i^erian  Council, 
which  met  in  Edinbui'gh. 

A  very  graphic  letter  was  -^-ritten  by  Moncure  D. 
Conway,  and  extensively  published  in  this  country,  de- 


Biographical  Sketch.  23 


scribing  Dr.  Hoge's  appearance  and  the  effect  of  a 
speech  he  delivered  in  the  council,  especially  the  im- 
pression produced  when  he  spoke  of  the  old  Bible 
which  one  of  his  family  ancestors,  fleeing  from  perse- 
cution, had  earned  to  Holland — the  Bible  often  wet 
Tvdth  the  salt  spray  of  the  sea  and  the  salt  tears  of  the 
sorromng  exiles,  its  leaves  yellow  with  age,  and  the 
names  in  the  family  register  faded  and  dim,  but  bright, 
as  the  speaker  behoved,  in  the  Book  of  Life. 

Bout  ft  ^im  iKitit  ligation* 

He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  meeting  of  the  Evan- 
gelical AUiance,  which  met  in  New  York  in  1873,  in 
which  he  made  an  address  in  vindication  of  the  civili- 
zation of  the  South.  Also  to  the  AlHance  of  the  Ee- 
formed  Churches  of  the  World,  which  met  in  Copen- 
hagen in  1884,  where  he  made  an  address  which 
obtained  for  him  an  invitation  to  visit  the  Crown 
Princess  of  Denmark  at  the  palace. 

He  was  sent  as  a  commissioner  to  the  Alliance  of 
the  Eeformed  Churches  which  convened  in  London  in 
1888,  and  the  subject  of  his  speech  before  that  body 
was  "The  Antagonisms  of  Society  and  How  to  Eecon- 
cile  Them." 

His  last  mission  of  the  kind  was  a  few  weeks  ago, 


24  Commemorative  Seevices. 


wlien,  at  the  Conference  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in 
Boston,  lie  delivered  a  speech  which  was  pronounced 
by  the  press  of  that  city  to  have  been  one  of  the  most 
effective  of  all  that  were  made  at  that  meeting,  and  ex- 
tracts from  which  have  been  frequently  published  and 
commented  on  by  the  newspaper  press. 

While  at  home  Dr.  Hoge  usually  occupies  his  own 
pulpit  during  both  services  on  the  Sabbath,  though  it 
would  often  give  him  rest  were  he  to  invite  some  other 
minister  to  take  his  place.  After  this  continuous  labor 
during  the  greater  part  of  the  year,  he  prefers  to  go 
abroad  for  recreation.  The  bracing  effect  of  the  sea- 
voyage  and  the  mental  and  physical  invigoration  de- 
rived from  the  social  Hfe  and  the  ever  varying  scenes 
and  incidents  of  travel  in  the  Old  World,  secure  for  the 
over-worked  pastor,  not  only  needed  rest,  but  fi'esh 
stores  of  information  which  are  turned  to  good  account 
on  his  return  for  the  benefit  of  his  own  people  at  home. 

His  longest  absence  was  during  the  year  1880,  when 
he  visited  Egypt  and  Palestine,  returning  through  Bul- 
garia and  Hungary  by  way  of  Rustchuk,  Bucharest, 
Buda-Pesth  and  Vienna  to  Paris.  This  tour  embraced 
the  Oriental  cities  of  Cairo,  Jerusalem,  Damascus,  Con- 
stantinople and  Smyrna. 


Biographical  Sketch.  25 


His  Chtttcft* 

The  cliurcli  of  which  Dr.  Hoge  is  pastor  was  ded- 
icated in  1848,  and  was  enlarged  and  beautified  in 
1873.  Among  the  young  men  reared  and  trained  in  it 
a  large  number  have  entered  the  gospel  ministry.  The 
Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  of  this  city  was  a  colony 
from  Dr.  Hoge's  church,  and  another  is  soon  to  be  or- 
ganized in  connection  with  the  Old  Market  Hall  Mis- 
sion.^ This  has  been  one  of  the  latest  and  most  suc- 
cessful enterprises  of  Dr.  Hoge's  hfe. 

About  four  years  ago  he  commenced  services  in  the 
spacious  hall  over  the  Old  Market,  and  it  was  a  success 
from  the  first.  The  size  of  the  congregations  have  been 
limited  only  by  the  size  of  the  hall ;  a  flourishing  Sab- 
bath-school has  been  established,  Bible  classes,  weekly 
lectures,  visitations  from  house  to  house,  and  all  the 
agencies  by  which  the  temporal  and  spiritual  good  of 
the  people  in  that  part  of  the  city  could  be  advanced 
have  been  employed. 

So  large  did  the  work  become  that  Dr.  Hoge  found 
it  impossible  to  coatinue  to  preach  three  times  every 
Sunday  and  personally  to  satisfy  the  requirements  of 
two  congregations,  as  he  wished  to  do,  and  in  conse- 
quence the  Rev.  L.  B.  Turnbull  was  called  as  an  as- 

*  Tliis  organization  has  since  taken  place. 


26  COMMEMOEATIVE  SERVICES. 


sistant  to  Dr.  Hoge,  his  chief  charge  being  the  Old 
Market  Hall  Mission. 

No  better  choice  conld  have  been  made,  and  under 
Mr.  Tumbull's  active  and  efficient  ministry  the  work 
inaugurated  four  years  ago  is  now  in  a  state  of  great 
prosperity,  with  the  most  encouraging  prospects  for  the 
future. 

Dr.  Hoge  is  thoroughly  orthodox.  No  member  of 
the  Westminster  Assembly  was  more  so,  nor  more  de- 
voted to  the  Presbyterian  polity,  but  he  has  nothing  of 
the  narrowness  of  a  sectarian.  His  Christianity  is 
broad  enough  to  embrace  all  who  love  Christ.  As  a 
consequence  he  is  beloved  and  admired  by  all  denomi- 
nations, and  members  of  other  churches  are  constantly 
found  among  his  congregations.  His  success  as  a 
preacher  is  due  to  a  variety  of  causes,  all  of  which  con- 
spire to  make  him  a  great  pulpit  orator.  His  profound 
Christian  experience  and  his  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  human  heart  enable  him  to  suit  the  gospel  message 
to  every  class  of  sinful  humanity. 

His  mind  is  eminently  logical,  but  his  reasoning  is 
overlaid  Tvdth  an  exquisite  rhetoric,  which,  while  it  de- 
tracts nothing  from  its  strength,  imparts  to  it  a  never- 
failing  charm. 


Biographical  Sketch.  27 


A  ripe  scholar,  he  enriches  his  discourses  with 
treasures  gathered  in  every  field  of  knowledge,  and 
whatever  passes  through  the  mint  of  his  mind  comes 
out  impressed  with  the  stamp  of  his  genius.  His  un- 
erring judgment  and  taste  enable  him  to  select  for  his 
quotations  the  best  thoughts  of  the  best  authors,  and 
his  illustrations  beautify,  while  they  illumine  his  sub- 
ject. He  keeps  fully  abreast  of  the  times,  and  invari- 
ably recognizes  and  attacks  the  multiform  foes  of  a  pure 
Christianity  whether  they  be  open  or  covert. 

Dr.  Hoge  excels  in  his  powers  of  description.  With 
a  few  bold  strokes,  and  mth  the  hand  of  an  artist,  he 
brings  out  his  pictures  with  wonderful  distinctness  and 
power,  and  adds  the  shading  with  a  delicacy  of  touch 
which  bespeak  the  master.  He  speaks  ^dthout  a  man- 
uscript, and  this  gives  full  play  to  a  voice  and  action 
which  are  exactly  suited  to  be  vehicles  of  his  eloquent 
thoughts.  He  fixes  the  attention  of  his  audience  mth 
the  first  word  he  utters,  and  thoroughly  commands  it  to 
the  last,  while  he  presents  the  grand  truths  of  revelation 
with  a  power,  a  pathos,  and  a  freshness  of  statement 
peculiarly  his  own.  In  a  word,  his  preaching  satisfies 
both  the  intellect  and  the  heart,  however  enlarged  they 
may  be. 


28  COMMEMOEATIVE  SERVICES. 


No  more  conclusive  e"sddence  of  his  power  as  an 
orator  could  be  given  than  the  eagerness  with  which 
the  people  among  whom  he  has  always  ministered 
crowd  to  hear  him.  They  never  tii'e  of  his  preaching, 
and  no  stranger  who  may  occupy  his  pulpit,  however 
great  his  reputation,  can  draw  the  extraordinary  con- 
gregations of  the  pastor. 

Dr.  Hoge  possesses  the  accomplishment,  not  com- 
mon with  fine  speakers,  of  being  also  a  fine  writer,  and 
as  such  earned  a  wide  reputation  during  the  five  years 
he  was  associated  Avith  Dr.  T.  V.  Moore  in  editing  the 
Central  Presbyterian.  His  discourses,  when  taken 
doTNTi,  as  he  deHvers  them  mthout  manuscript,  are  fin- 
ished specimens  of  composition,  and  could  hardly  be 
more  admirable  were  he  to  write  them  out  before  de- 
livery. 

The  degree  of  D.  D.  was  conferred  on  Dr.  Hoge  by 
Hampden  Sidney  College,  in  June,  1854 ;  the  degree 
of  L  L.  D.  by  Washington  and  Lee  University,  at  the 
commencement  in  June,  1886.  That  commencement 
was  a  centennial  celebration.  At  the  imitation  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  Dr.  Hoge  delivered  a  historical  dis- 


Biographical  Sketch.  29^ 


course.  There  was  a  peculiar  propriety  in  selecting 
him  as  the  representative  of  the  University  on  that  oc- 
casion, as  his  grandfather,  Dr.  Moses  Hoge,  was  a 
member  of  the  first  class  on  which  degrees  were  con- 
ferred by  that  institution  (successively  known  as  Lib- 
erty Hall,  Washington  College,  and  Washington  and 
Lee  University),  one  hundred  years  before. 


The  following  editorial  notice  appeared  in  The  State  of 
27th  February: 

To-day  is  the  forty -fifth  anniversary  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Moses  D.  Hoge's  pastorate,  and  the  celebration  of  this 
anniversary  to-night  ^vvill  be  in  many  respects  unique. 
All  classes  and  creeds  mil  be  represented  in  the  audi- 
ence that  will  crowTl  the  Academy  of  Music ;  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Commonwealth 
will  participate  in  the  exercises ;  the  Mayor  of  the  city 
will  send  a  letter  of  congratulations,  and  distinguished 
divines  of  this  and  other  cities,  representing  various 
ecclesiastical  bodies,  vn)l  deHver  addresses. 

The  entire  South  is  proud  of  Dr.  Hoge,  for  he  is 
regarded  not  only  as  a  great  moral  leader  and  i^ulpit 


30  COMMEMOEATIVE  SERVICES. 


orator,  but  as  a  splendid  champion  of  southern  civihza- 
tion.  As  for  Eichmond,  her  citizens  take  especial  de- 
light in  doing  honor  to  the  man  of  God  who  has  labored 
faithfully  for  nearly  haK  a  century  to  stimulate  the  higher 
life  of  this  community,  and  who  has  done  his  full  share 
in  educating  and  directing  public  sentiment. 

As  a  preacher  Dr.  Hoge  has  reached  vast  numbers 
of  people,  and  while  he  has  been  tender  and  loving  in 
presenting  the  gospel  of  peace  and  good-will,  he  has 
been  brave  and  prophet-like  in  rebuking  the  sins  of  the 
times.  With  singular  insight  into  the  motives  of  men, 
and  with  a  quick  understanding  of  the  drift  of  things, 
he  has  struck  right  and  left,  and  made  thousands  re- 
solve to  mend  their  evil  ways  and  lead  Christian  lives. 

The  presence  of  a  man  hke  this  in  a  community  T\ill 
always  be  felt  Tvdth  power,  whether  the  masses  come 
directly  under  his  voice  or  not.  The  value  of  such  a 
man  cannot  be  overestimated.  And  every  man  and 
woman  who  appreciates  courage,  fidelity  and  noble  liv- 
ing will  be  in  full  sympathy  with  the  exercises  at  the 
Academy  to-night. 


BlOGEAPHICAL  SKETCH.  31 


The  editor  of  the  Southern  Churchman,  in  the  issue  of 
February  27th,  had  the  following  notice  of  the  coming  cele- 
bration : 

We  have  received  an  invitation  to  attend  the  cele- 
bration of  Dr.  Hoge's  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  in- 
stallation as  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Eichmond.  We  would  be  glad  to  do  so,  as  Dr.  Hoge 
is  to  be  much  respected  and  esteemed.  Everybody  who 
knows  him  is  aware  he  does  not  advertise  himself,  has 
no  sermons  on  '*  How  to  catch  a  beau,"  has  no  solos  or 
excitement  in  his  church, — not  one  thing  he  does  or 
allows  to  be  done  for  stage  effect  in  this  world  of  hum- 
bugs. All  honor  to  him  therefor.  If  this  ^Titer  is  not 
there  to  testify  his  respect,  let  this  more  public  testi- 
monial suffice  for  a  minister  w^ho  is  a  good  man,  and 
who  has  done  nothing  but  good  in  the  city  of  Eich- 
mond all  his  forty-five  years. 


vf^ommemoratlon   *  O 


xercises 


OF   THE 


Forty-Fifth  Amiversary 


OF 


Bev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D,,  LL  D, 

AS  PASTOR  OF  THE 

©econd    rresbyterian    oburcl^, 


RICHMOND,  VA. 

ASADEMY  0P  MUSIC, 
-^,1890.!^ 


Ol^DBI^   OP    €XEI^6ISBS. 

fl^MTlKE^— "  O  Praise  the  IioPd." 

Intkodtjctoey  Eemaeks  by  Hon,  W.  W.  HENEY,  and  Peayek  by  the. 
Rev.    H.    C.    ALEXANDER,   D.  D., 

Of  the  Union  Theological  SEirrsAEY,  Prince  Edwabd  County,  Va. 

Eesolutions  of  Peesbyteeian  Pastoes'  Association, 
Rev.    J.    C.    STEWART. 


iNTEODrcTioN  BY  His  EXCELLENCY,  Gov.  P.  W.  McKINNEY, 

AND  AdDEESS  of  THE 

Rev.    JOHN   HALL,    D.  D.,    L  L.  D., 

Of  the  Northern  Presbyterian  Church. 

Joy  to  the  -world,  the  Lord  is  come ! 

Let  earth  receive  her  King ; 
Let  every  heart  prepare  him  room. 

And  heaven  and  nature  sing. 


34  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


Joy  to  the  world,  the  Saviour  reigns! 

Let  men  their  songs  employ ; 
While  fields  and  floods,  rocks,  hills  and  plains, 

Eepeat  the  sounding  joy. 

No  more  let  sins  and  sorrows  grow, 

Nor  thorns  infest  the  ground ; 
He  comes  to  make  his  blessing  flow, 

Far  as  the  curse  is  found. 

He  mles  the  world  with  truth  and  gr.  je. 

And  makes  the  nations  prove 
The  glories  of  his  righteousness 

And  wonders  of  his  love. 

Introduction  by  Lieut. -Gov.  J.  HOGE  TYLER,  and  Address  of  the 
Right   Rev.    A.   W.    WILSON,    D.  D., 

Of  ihe  Methodist  EpiscoPAii  Chubch  South. 

Introduction  by  M.  M.  GILLIAM,  Esq.,  and  Address  or 
Hon.    J.    L.    M.    CURRY,    LL.  D., 

Of  the  Baptist  Chukch. 

Glorious  things  of  thee  are  spoken, 

Zion,  city  of  our  God ; 
He  whose  word  cannot  be  broken 

Formed  thee  for  his  own  abode. 
On  the  Rock  of  ages  founded. 

What  can  shake  thy  sure  repose  ? 
With  salvation's  walls  surrounded, 

Thou  mayest  smile  at  all  thy  foes. 


Order  of  Exercises.  35 


See  the  streams  of  living  waters, 

Springing  from  eternal  love, 
Well  supply  thy  sons  and  daiighters, 

And  all  fear  of  want  remove. 
Who  can  faint,  while  such  a  river 

Ever  flows  their  thirst  to  assuage  ? 
Grace  which,  like  the  Lord,  the  giver, 

Never  fails  from  age  to  age. 

Kound  each  habitation  hovering. 

See  the  cloud  and  fire  appear, 
For  a  glory  and  a  covering. 

Showing  that  the  Lord  is  near; 
Thus  deriving  from  their  banner 

Light  by  night  and  shade  by  day ; 
Safe  they  feed  upon  the  manna. 

Which  he  gives  them  when  they  pray. 

Introduction  by  Col.  C.  K.  BARKSDALE,  and  Addkess  of  the 
Right   Rev.    A.    M.    RANDOLPH, 

Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Vikginia. 

Introduction  by  the  Rev.  PEYTON  HARRISON  HOGE,  D.  D., 

AND  Address  of  the 

Rev.    ROBERT    P.    KERR,    D.  D., 

Of  the  Soxjthebn  Peesbyterian  Chubch. 


Response  by  the 
Rev.    MOSES   D.    HOGE,    D.  D.,    L  L.  D. 


36  Commemorative  Services. 


PSALtlW. 

From  all  that  dwell  below  the  sides, 
Let  the  Creator's  praise  arise ; 
Let  the  Kedeemer's  name  be  sung 
Through  every  land,  by  every  tongue. 

Eternal  are  thy  mercies,  Lord, 

Eternal  truth  attends  thy  word ; 

Thy  praise  shall  sound  from  shore  to  shore, 

Till  suns  shall  set  and  rise  no  more. 

BHflEDICTIOfl. 

Rev.   HERBERT  H.    HA  WES,   D.  D.^ 

Of  Staunton,  Va. 


(90MMBM0I=^AiriYB   SeI^YIGBS. 


The  following  description  of  tlie  scene  at  the  Academy 
building  was  given  in  the  Richmond  Dispatch  of  28th  Feb- 
ruary: 

(^>Y  GEANDEK  honor  than  the  bestowal  of  the  laurel 
^^  crown  upon  the  victor  of  many  campaigns  was 
that  last  night  conferred  upon  Kev.  Moses  D. 
Hoge,  D.  D. 

His  whole  pastoral  life  has  been  spent  at  one  church 
in  Eichmond.  For  forty-five  years  he  has  been  one  of 
us.  He  had  become  widely  celebrated  as  an  orator 
before  the  war  of  1861-'65,  and  in  the  days  of  that 
memorable  conflict  his  tall  and  lithe  form  was  often 
seen  in  the  Confederate  camps.  Frequently  on  Sun- 
day afternoons  he  preached  almost  in  the  face  of  the 
hostile  army,  and  had  for  his  hearers  thousands  of  the 
sun-bronzed  men  who  wore  the  gray.  Then,  as  now, 
he  never  seemed  to  speak  loudly,  yet  his  voice,  which 
can  arouse  like  the  blast  of  a  trumpet  or  soothe  like 
the  touch  of  a  tender  hand,  reached  the  furthest  rank 


38  Commemorative  Services. 


of  the  circle  of  soldiers  encompassing  him.  He  did  a 
noble  work  also  in  the  military  hospitals,  and  he  was 
a  personal  friend  and  confidant  of  Davis,  Lee,  and 
Jackson. 

Thus  his  fame  was  carried  to  numberless  southern 
homes,  and  thence  has  spread  far  over  the  North  and 
West  and  to  Europe. 

But  it  isn't  only  the  charm  of  his  oratory,  the  grace 
of  his  language,  that  has  captivated  our  people.  He  is 
known  to  be  truly  a  good  man ;  a  kind  man ;  a  generous, 
loving,  and  comforting  man;  a  man  of  God,  strong  in 
the  faith  of  his  denomination,  yet  with  a  heart  and  hand 
for  every  brother,  converted  or  unconverted. 

To  give  expression  to  appreciation  of  all  these  things 
it  was  resolved  to  have  a  celebration  of  the  forty-fifth 
anniversary  of  his  pastorate.  Beginning  in  his  own 
church  (the  Second  Presbyterian),  the  movement  re- 
ceived the  cordial  support  of  all  the  churches.  Instead 
of  being  local,  it  became  general.  Baptists,  Episcopa- 
lians, Methodists,  and  all,  joined  in  the  desire  to  con- 
gratulate Dr.  Hoge,  and  to  say  to  him  in  what  high 
estimation  he  is  held  and  what  a  warm  place  he  has  in 
the  affections  of  the  community. 


The  Exercises  at  the  Academy.  39 


The  programme  of  exercises  included  addresses  at 
the  Academy  of  Music  (the  largest  public  hall  in  the 
city)  and  banquet  and  reception  in  the  lecture-room 
of  his  church.  The  two  buildings  are  about  four  hun- 
dred yards  apart. 

The  day  was  inauspicious.  Rain  fell  in  the  morn- 
ing. Clouds  obscured  the  sky  throughout  the  after- 
noon, and  as  night  approached  there  was  a  growing 
dampness  in  the  air  and  prospects  of  chilling  showers. 

These  drawbacks,  however,  had  little  or  no  effect 
upon  the  people  who  had  resolved  to  go  to  the  Acad- 
emy, for  at  seven  o'clock,  when  the  Academy  doors 
were  thrown  open,  the  crowd  in  front  of  the  building 
filled  the  sidewalk  and  extended  half  across  the  road- 
way. 

3FtUeft  In  n  llTttitnkHits* 

The  doors  were  no  sooner  opened  than  the  Academy 
was  a  third  filled.  In  twenty-five  or  thirty  minutes 
every  seat  was  occupied. 

By  half-past  seven  o'clock  there  was  no  more  room 
in  the  orchestra,  in  the  dress-circle,  or  in  the  gallery 


40  Commemorative  Services. 


Nowhere  a  seat  was  to  be  had,  but  still  people  pressed 
their  way  in  and  stood,  blocking  all  the  aisles.  At  eight 
o'clock  the  doors  were  closed ;  an  almost  unnecessary 
precaution,  as  it  was  not  possible  for  any  more  to 
wedge  in. 

'^flit  platform* 

On  the  stage  there  were  two  hundred  chairs  placed. 
These  were  occupied  by  the  clergy  and  their  ladies, 
members  of  the  chou',  and  especially  invited  guests. 

Nearly  all  the  ministers  of  Eichmond  and  Manches- 
ter were  present,  Eabbi  Harris  being  of  the  number. 

Dr.  Hoge,  Dr.  Hall,  and  a  number  of  the  other 
speakers  arrived  at  ten  minutes  to  eight,  and  as  they 
took  their  seats  on  the  stage,  were  most  cordially  ap- 
plauded. 

On  the  front  row  of  seats  on  the  stage,  and  to  the 
left  of  the  table  provided  for  the  speaker,  were  seated 
Eev.  John  Hall,  D.  D.,  Dr.  Alexander,  Bishop  Ean- 
dolph,  Dr.  J.  L.  M.  Curry,  Bishop  Wilson,  Eev.  Dr. 
Hawes,  of  Staunton,  Dr.  Hoge,  Eev.  Dr.  Kerr,  and 
Eev.  L.  B.  Turnbull.  To  the  right  of  the  speaker's 
stand  sat  Hon.  W.  W.  Henry,  Governor  P.  W.  McKin- 
ney,  Lieutenant-Governor  Tyler,  Mr.  Marshall  M.  Gil- 
liam, and  Colonel  C.  E.  Barksdale. 


The  Exercises  at  the  Academy.  41 


3Ln  titc  Boxes^ 

The  left  box  on  the  stage  was  occupied  by  Dr. 
Hoge's  family,  Mrs.  Marshall  M.  GiUiam,  Miss  Hoge, 
Miss  Mary  M.  Gilham,  Mr.  Hoge  Gilliam,  Dr.  Moses  D. 
Hoge,  Jr.,  Mr.  Hampden  Hoge,  Mrs.  Lizzie  Drever, 
and  Mrs.  Beverley  Scott,  of  WilHamsburg,  daughter  of 
Colonel  B.  S.  Ewell,  president  emeritus  of  William  and 
Mary  College,  and  one  of  Dr.  Hoge's  oldest  friends. 

The  box  on  the  right  of  the  stage  was  occupied  by 
Colonel  C.  R.  Barksdale  and  family,  and  Mrs.  Mary 
Maxwell,  widow  of  the  late  William  Maxwell,  president 
of  Hampden  Sidney  College,  who  was  an  intimate 
friend  of  Dr.  Hoge. 

The  upper  box  on  the  right  was  occupied  by  Mr. 
James  Lyons,  Mrs.  James  Lyons,  Mrs.  J.  L.  M.  Curry, 
Mr.  Edward  Valentine,  and  Colonel  and  Mrs.  F.  M. 
Boy  kin. 

The  upper  box  on  the  left  was  occupied  by  Mr.  F. 
T.  Glasgow,  Miss  Anna  Glasgow,  Miss  Cary  Glasgow, 
and  Professor  George  Frederick  Holmes,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia. 

The  lo(/e  on  the  right-hand  side  was  occupied  by 
Mr.  James  E.  Blair  and  his  family,  and  the  one  on  the 
left  by  Mr.  Howard  Swineford  and  his  family. 


42  Commemorative  Services. 


A  Brilliant  .^^s^mbln^^. 

No  decorations  of  the  Academy  were  attempted. 
None  were  needed.  A  pleasant  woodland  scene  filled 
the  extreme  background  of  the  stage,  and  every  inch  of 
available  stage  space  was  filled  with  chairs  or  with  peo- 
ple standing. 

It  was  not  merely  a  large  audience  of  our  best  peo- 
ple, but  a  wonderfully  impressive  one.  More  than  two 
thousand  eager  faces  watched  for  the  beginning  of  the 
proceedings.  It  was  chiefly  a  church-attending  aud- 
ience, but  there  was  also  a  sprinkling  of  non-church 
goers,  and  throughout  reverent  attention  was  given, 
though  the  time  and  place  allowed  the  people  to  in- 
dulge themselves  in  applause. 

®^lt^  C5u^$ts* 

Among  the  distinguished  guests  who  came  to  do 
honor  to  the  occasion  were  Eev.  Dr.  John  Hall,  of  New 
York,  the  guest  of  Mr.  S.  H.  Hawes ;  Bishop  Alpheus 
Wilson,  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Baltimore, 
Md.,  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Branch;  Dr.  Henry  C. 
Alexander,  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  the 
guest  of  Mr.  W.  W.  Henry;  Colonel  Richard  Lathers, 
of  New  York,  the  guest  of  Mr.  A.  T.  Harris ;  Mr.  G.  M. 


The  Exercises  at  the  Academy.  43 


Atwater,  the  guest  of  Mr.  John  A.  Coke ;  Kev.  Peyton 
H.  Hoge,  D.  D.,  and  wife,  of  "Wihnington,  N.  C,  the 
guests  of  Mr.  Thos.  Boiling ;  Professor  L.  L.  Holladay, 
of  Hampden-Sidney  College. 


THE  EXERCISES. 


The  anthem  was  rendered  by  the  chou-  promptly  at  eight 
o'clock  p.  M.,  and  at  its  close  Hon.  W.  W.  Henry  arose  and 
said :  "  On  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Arrangements  of  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church,  it  is  made  my  pleasing  duty 
to  cordially  welcome  the  distinguished  speakers,  some  of 
whom  have  come  from  theu'  distant  homes  to  honor  this  oc- 
casion with  their  presence.  I  extend  a  welcome  with  equal 
heartiness  to  our  brethren  of  other  chm'ches  who  show  their 
interest  in  these  commemorative  services  by  their  presence 
here  to-night. 

"We  feel  it,  however,  to  be  our  first  duty  and  privilege  to 
ask  the  divine  blessing  upon  these  exercises,  and  I  invite 
Dr.  Alexander,  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  to  lead  us  in 
prayer." 

By  Key.    H.    C.    ALEXANDEK,    D.  D. 

Y^OKD  God  Almighty,  most  merciful  and  gracious 
JLy  ^  Jehovah ;  the  God  of  Abraham,  of  Isaac  and 
of  Jacob ;  we  approach  thee  as  sinners ;  but  we  do  not 
dare  to  come  before  thee  in  our  own  name,  or  relying 
on  oiir  own  merits  and  intercession  ;  but  "  making  men- 


The  Exercises  at  the  Academy.  45^ 


tion  of  thy  righteousness,  even  of  thine  only,"  and 
pleading  the  merits  and  mediation  of  Jesus  Christ,  thy^ 
Son,  our  blessed  Lord  and  Saviour. 

Thou  hast  ever  been  the  God  of  our  fathers  ;  thou 
art  to-day  the  God  of  their  descendants.  "  Thou  hast 
been  our  dwelling-place  in  all  generations."  Thou  art 
our  only  hope  for  the  years  that  are  to  come. 

We  desire  to  magnify  thine  infinite  perfections.  We 
praise  thee  for  thine  excellent  greatness.  We  give 
thanks  to  thee  for  thy  great  goodness. 

Accept,  heavenly  Father,  our  grateful  acknowledg- 
ments for  thine  innumerable  mercies.  We  thank  thee 
especially  at  this  time  with  united  hearts  for  thy  favor 
bestowed  upon  thy  servant,  a  signal  way-mark  in  whose 
course  we  are,  in  thy  gracious  providence,  now  permit- 
ted to  commemorate.  We  thank  thee  for  the  gi'ace 
thou  hast  conferred  upon  him  by  putting  him  into  the 
ministry  of  thy  word.  We  thank  thee  for  the  gifts 
with  which  thou  hast  endowed  him,  and  the  opportuni- 
ties of  usefulness  which  thou  hast  afforded  him,  and  for 
the  measure  of  success  which  has  attended  his  labors 
here  and  elsewhere.  We  thank  thee  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  his  life,  and  for  all  the  blessings  thou  hast 
showered  upon  him.  Crown  all  these  blessings  with 
salvation.     Make  his  eye  not  soon  to  grow  dim,  or  his . 


46  Commemorative  Services. 


natural  force  to  be  abated  ;  may  his  bow  long  abide  in 
strength.  Continue  to  bless  the  people  of  his  charge. 
Bless  the  Church  of  the  living  God.  Lift  up  thy  coun- 
tenance upon  this  waiting  assemblage.  All  which 
things  we  ask  for  the  sake  of  Jesus  Christ,  our  adorable 
Eedeemer,  to  whom,  -^ith  thee  the  Father,  and  with 
thee  the  Holy  Ghost,  be  all  the  glory  and  praise,  world 
without  end.     Amen. 


Resolutions  of  th^  ^resbgterian 
Pastors^  Association. 


The  Eev.  L.  B.  Tuenbull  then  said :  "In  the  absence  of 
the  Kev.  J.  C.  Stewart,  the  Secretary  of  our  Presbyterian 
Ministers'  Association,  I  have  been  called  ujDon  to  read  the 
resolutions  passed  by  this  Association. 

"  I  desu-e  first  to  express  the  deep  regret  of  Mr.  Stewart, 
who  is  unavoidably  detained  by  ministerial  duties  just  at 
this  moment. 

''Rooms  of  Presbyterian  Pastors'  Assoc,  Richmond,  Va. 
"  At  a  meeting  of  the  Presb3i;erian  Ministers'  Associa- 
tion, of  Richmond,  Va.,  held  February  24th,  1890,  the  fol- 
lowing preamble  and  resolutions  were  adopted  and  ordered 
to  be  forwarded  to  the  Rev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D.,  as  a  tes- 
timonial of  congratulation  and  affection  on  this  the  forty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  his  pastorate  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  Richmond,  Va. : 

"  The  Presbyterian  Ministers'  Association  records  with 
profound  gratitude  that  our  beloved  brother  and  co-laborer, 
the  Rev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D.,  has  reached  the  forty-fifth 
anniversary  of  his  pastorate.  It  is  a  pastorate  signaUzed  as 
the  longest  ever  enjoyed  by  any  minister  in  this  city,  and  is 
as  conspicuous  for  its  power  and  brilliancy  as  for  its  length. 


48  COMMEMOEATIYE  SERVICES. 


As  an  association,  -we  take  hearty  pleasure  in  joining  with 
the  multitude  in  doing  honor  to  this  servant  of  the  house  of 
the  Lord  at  this  anniversary  season.  Dr.  Hoge  is  very  dear 
to  his  brethi^en  of  this  city  in  the  ministry.  His  hfe,  his 
character,  and  his  work  stand  before  them  as  the  ideal 
preacher,  pastor  and  co-laborer,  in  all  of  which  he  is  con- 
templated by  them  with  singular  and  enduring  pleasure. 
We  are  truly  grateful  to  God  for  the  gift  of  such  a  life  and 
work  to  our  day  and  generation  ;  to  our  city ;  to  our  homes^ 
and  to  the  Church  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  the  earth. 
And  desiring  to  express  oui'  sincere  gratitude  to  the  Giver 
of  all  good  for  preserving  the  hfe  of  oiu'  brother  in  its  rich- 
ness and  power  to  this  beautiful,  auspicious  day  ;  therefore, 

"  Resolved,  That  this  association  hereby  records  its  pro- 
foimd  appreciation  of  the  life,  character,  and  services  of  our 
beloved  brother,  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D. ;  that  we  extend  to 
him  and  to  his  church  our  heartiest  congratulations  on  this 
the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  pastorate  ;  that  we  prayer- 
fully and  lovingly  commend  them  both  to  the  tenderest  care 
of  our  covenant-keeping  God ;  that  we  pray  that  this  union, 
consummated  forty-five  years  ago,  and  continued  through  so 
many  trials  and  vicissitudes,  may  yet  long  be  preserved. 
And  may  the  hfe  of  both,  mellowed  by  time  and  blended  by 
so  intimate  association,  grow  day  by  day  in  the  grace  that 
is  in  our  Lord  Jesus,  and  be  as  the  path  of  the  just  which 
shineth  more  and  more  unto  the  perfect  day. 

By  order  of  the  Association, 

"J.  Cal^tn  Stewakt,  Sec'y.'^ 


CSoxitmor  McSCinneg. 


Governor  McKinney  then  came  forward,  and,  after  ac- 
knowledging the  applause  with  which  he  was  greeted,  said : 

"  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  this  is  a  pleasing  and  an  un- 
usual event  which  has  caUed  this  vast  concourse  of  people 
together, — to  commemorate  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of 
the  pastorate  of  our  beloved  brother,  Dr.  Moses  D.  Hoge. 
I  am  gratified  at  this  vast  assembly.  It  shows  that  the  peo- 
ple are  not  ungrateful.  We  need  not  look  beyond  the  con- 
fines of  this  life  to  find  rewards  for  good  deeds  done  whila 
we  are  here.  The  people  know  them,  the  people  feel  them, 
and  the  people  appreciate  them. 

"  Dr.  Hoge  has  been  a  good  citizen  and  true  man.  He 
has  loved  and  served  his  country  faithfully,  in  peace  and  in 
war.  He  has  taught  us  by  precept  and  by  example  our  dut^ 
to  our  neighbor,  our  country,  and  our  God.  He  has  re- 
joiced with  us  at  the  altar ;  he  has  wept  with  us  at  the  tomb. 
And  the  people  are  here  to  honor  him  and  to  show  their  love 
for  him. 

"He  has  been  a  faithful  servant  of  the  living  God,  and 
Christians,  without  respect  to  churches,  are  here  to  show 
their  affection  and  admiration  for  him. 
4 


50  COMIVrEMORATIVE  SERVICES. 


"The  Presbyterian  Churcli  everywhere  loves  him,  and 
it  sends  from  the  Northern  Church  one  of  its  most  distin- 
guished members  to  unite  with  us  in  these  exercises,  and  we 
welcome  Dr.  Hall  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the 
Presbyterian  Chm'ch. 

"It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  introduce  him  to  this 
audience." 


/Address  of  Dr.  J^all. 


I  HAVE  pleasure  in  taking  any  modest  part  in  these 
uncommon  exercises;  for  it  is  not  often,  in  this 
land,  that  a  pastor  labors  in  the  same  field  for  five-and- 
forty  years.  This  celebration  is  honorable  to  the  pas- 
tor ;  it  is  honorable  also  to  the  church  he  serves,  and  to 
the  community  w^hich  thus  express  their  appreciation. 

I  am  a  representative,  and  one  can  sometiines  claim 
attention  on  that  ground, — attention  to  which  he  would 
not  be  entitled  as  an  indi\ddual.  I  stand,  first  of  all, 
for  the  congregation  w^hich  I  serve.  Dr.  Hoge  has  been 
in  their  pulpit,  and,  setting  aside  his  exceptional  bril- 
liancy, in  all  other  matters  he  is  counted  by  them  as 
old-fashioned  and  orthodox  as  their  pastor.     I  stand 


Address  of  Dr.  Hall.  51 


for  the  community  of  New  York  with  which  I  come  in 
contact,  which  always  Hstens  to  his  voice  with  the 
deepest  interest  and  respect.  I  stand  for  the  great 
Presbyterian  community,  as  it  was  represented  at  the 
Centennial  exercises  in  Philadelphia,  and  for  a  larger 
constituency  in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland  and  Wales, 
knowing  his  voice,  figure  and  characteristics.  I  stand 
for  a  gentleman,  an  Englishman,  whose  name  I  do  not 
know,  who  sat  down  by  me  in  a  great  meeting  in  Lon- 
don while  Dr.  Hoge  was  speaking.  I  noticed  at  once 
that  his  ears  were  open ;  then  his  eyes  were  open ;  then 
he  opened  his  mouth  and  said  to  me,  "  Is  that  young 
man  an  American?"  If  the  congregation  where  that 
gentleman  worships  were  vacant,  and  Dr.  Hoge  were  a 
candidate  for  the  pulpit,  I  am  sure  he  would  vote  for 
him. 

Dr.  Hoge  is  entitled  to  our  regard  as  a  man,  for 
the  man  is  behind  the  minister.  We  do  not  believe  in 
that  division  of  the  race  given  as  "men,  women  and 
ministers."  We  honor  Dr.  Hoge  as  a  good,  genial 
gentleman.  In  any  Hne  of  life  he  would  be  valued  and 
trusted. 

We  know  him  as  an  evangelist,  a  minister  not  con- 
tent Tvdth  "ninning  a  congregation,"  as  they  say,  but 
toihng  for  the  good  of  outsiders.     We  honor  him  as  a 


52  COMMEMOKATIVE  SeKYICES. 


pastor.  It  is  no  light  thing  to  have  filled  this  place  in 
this  influential  city  for  five-and-forty  years.  I  have 
been  just  half  that  time  in  my  present  charge,  and  I 
sometimes  feel  as  if  my  people  know  about  all  that  I  do ; 
but  there  comes  to  me  the  sober  second  thought  that  I 
have  the  divine  word  to  explain  to  them,  and  it  is  in- 
exhaustible. 

After  an  illustration  of  the  difficulties  of  a  busy  city 
preacher  from  a  Scottish  minister's  career,  and  another 
of  the  tenderness  of  the  tie  binding  pastor  and  people 
together,  the  Doctor  proceeded : 

We  honor — I  honor — Dr.  Hoge  as  a  preacher  of 
the  gospel  of  grace.  Men  are  now  dividing  up  vice  in- 
to sections,  with  an  organization  to  deal  with  each  sec- 
tion. The  evangelical  minister  goes  to  the  root  of  the 
matter  with  the  grace  that  teaches  men  to  deny  un- 
godliness and  all  worldly  lusts.  There  is  a  sphere  in 
which  it  may  be  wise  policy  to  "  divide  and  conquer," 
but  it  is  not  the  physician's  way  to  give  medicine  for 
each  symptom.  He  diagnoses  the  case,  and  strikes  at 
the  root  of  the  trouble.  So  the  Physician  of  souls 
would  have  us  do ;  and  all  virtue  is  so  promoted.  We 
are  taught  to  "live  soberly,  righteously  and  godly"  in 
the  world.  "An  ounce  of  prevention  is  better  than  a 
pound  of  cure,"  and  the  man  who  is  bringing  the  gos- 


Address  of  Dr.  Hall.  53 


pel  to  the  homes  and  hearts  of  the  people  is  guarding 
against  wrong-doing,  sin  and  the  crimes  which  cost  the 
community  so  much.  A  city  may  justly  honor  a  faith- 
ful preacher  of  the  grace  that  brings  such  salvation. 
Men  say  that  we  want,  not  dogma,  but  doing  good.  But 
as  the  multiplication  table  is  for  making  us  keep  ac- 
counts, as  the  rules  of  grammar  are  for  making  us  talk 
good  English,  so  the  doctrines  of  the  Bible  are  for 
making  us  good,  useful,  unselfish  Christians,  and  so 
good  citizens.  I  read  not  long  ago  of  a  substitute  for 
the  gospel,  in  the  "  fatherhood  of  God,  the  motherhood 
of  nature,  and  the  brotherhood  of  man."  It  is  nice  to 
the  ear;  it  is  unmeaning,  however.  It  is  when  we 
know  God  in  Christ  that  we  have  the  deepest  sense  of 
his  fatherhood  and  of  our  brotherhood.  Dr.  Peter 
Parker  reahzed  that  when  he  founded  an  hospital  in 
Canton,  China,  which  has  treated,  I  suppose,  a  million 
of  sufferers,  and  did  it  all  in  the  spirit  of  living  Chris- 
tianity. Where  would  the  "  charities "  of  our  nation 
be  if  it  were  not  for  the  inspiration  of  this  faith  in 
Christ  revealed  in  the  gospel  of  grace  ? 


%i^uHnnnt^^txnt:vnnv  W^l^t. 


Hon.  J.  HoGE  Tylek,  Lieutenant-Governor,  then  said: 
"  It  is  only  necessary  to  call  the  name  of  the  next  speaker 
to  be  assm-ed,  not  only  of  a  cordial  and  hearty  greeting  by 
those  of  his  own  denomination,  but  by  all  who  have  assem- 
bled to  testify  their  interest  on  this  occasion. 

"It  is  my  pleasing  duty  to  introduce  as  the  next  speaker 
Bishop  A.  W.  Wilson,  of  Baltimore."  . 


/^ddre55  of  Bisl^op  0/11509, 


^TT  is  without  the  smallest  misgiving  and  without  the 
J I  least  mental  reservation  that  I  express  in  behalf  of 
my  ow^n  church — Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South — 
not  simply  that  section  of  it  resident  and  operative  in 
the  city  of  Eichmond,  but  the  entire  body  of  its  com- 
municants— something  like  a  miUion  and  a  quarter — 
our  hearty  congratulations  to  your  pastor  upon  the  an- 
niversary of  his  forty-five  years  of  service,  and  our 


Address  of  Bishop  Wilson.  55 


hearty  thanksgiving  to  God  that  such  service  has  been 
rendered ;  and  I  will  say  further,  and  say  it  emphati- 
cally, that  such  Presbyterian  service  has  been  rendered 
to  this  community  and  to  the  South. 

I  have  a  good,  strong  touch  of  the  old  Presbyterian 
blood  in  my  veins.  It  is  Scotch-Irish  blood,  and  every- 
body knows  how  tenaciously  Presbyterian  that  is,  and 
how  very  hard  to  get  rid  of. 

I  acknowledge  myself  to  be  a  Methodist  from  be- 
ginning to  end,  all  the  way  through,  a  double-dyed 
Methodist,  but  I  can  never  shake  off  the  ties  that  bind 
me  to  that  old  Presbyterian  stock ;  and  I  feel  a  high 
sense  of  gratitude  that  ever  it  was  transplanted  in  its 
sturdy  form  to  the-  soil  of  America,  and  that  I  came 
out  of  it.  It  has  a  glorious  history.  I  do  not  think 
that  the  men  who  have  been  nourished  upon  that  meat 
have  been  surpassed  in  the  records  of  human  history, 
and  I  should  unspeakably  regret  any  decline  in  the 
force  and  quality  of  the  old  Presbji:erian  faith  in  our 
land.  I  am  not  speaking  about  differences  of  opinion ; 
but  I  want  you  to  recollect  this,  that  no  church  on 
earth  has  given  us  such  a  deeply-rooted  conception  of 
the  sovereignty  of  God,  and  along  with  it  and  its  neces- 
sary corollary,  such  an  eternal,  ethical  protest  against 
sin  in  its  inception  and  conclusion,  in  aU  its  forms,  as 


■56  COMMEMOKATIYE  SERVICES. 


has  come  out  of  the  Presbyterian  faith  and  stock.  And 
we  need  it. 

What  we  have  to-night  before  ns  I  may  characterize 
as  the  culminating  expression  of  the  Hfe  of  your  pastor, 
the  effect  of  that  life  during  these  forty-five  years. 

Beginning  at  the  foundation,  he  has  built  up,  and  has 
grown  himself  as  he  builded ;  opening  out  on  all  sides ; 
touching  all  classes  of  the  community ;  coming  into  as- 
sociation and  sympathy  with  men  of  every  sort,  until 
he  has  thrown  himself  over  the  whole  multitude,  and 
to-day,  in  some  sort,  fairly  claims  Episcopahans,  Meth- 
odists, and  all  other  denominations  in  Richmond. 

It  is  almost  an  unparalleled  instance  of  continued 
and  deserved  popularity,  and  that  not  in  any  vicious 
sense  of  the  term. 

Perhaps  few  men  in  the  country,  few  men  in  the 
world,  have  been  able  to  affect  personally,  not  simply 
by  any  far-reaching  utterance  of  his  own  that  has  gone 
through  the  press  and  has  been  sounded  out  from  other 
lips,  but  by  his  own  personalty,  such  multitudes  of  men 
as  the  pastor  of  this  church.  And  his  popularity  in 
that  better,  best  sense  of  the  term  has  not  dechned  with 
the  advance  of  years. 

This,  I  say,  is  its  culminating  expression.  Rich- 
mond is  here  to-night — the  Richmond  church,  not  the 


Address  of  Bishop  Wilson.  67 


Riclimond  cLurclies  simply — the  Richmoud  people, 
church  and  all;  thoughtful  people,  honest  people, 
grateful  people,  people  who  know  good  when  they  see 
it,  and  can  recognize  the  effect  of  a  strong,  hearty, 
vigorous,  sympathetic,  God-hke  Hfe  when  it  comes  out 
in  such  development.  The  people  and  the  church  of 
God  are  here  to  testify  to  the  fidelity  of  this  man  to 
his  work  and  to  the  efficiency  of  his  work.  I  am  glad 
and  grateful  to  witness  it. 

There  are  two  things  always  to  be  taken  into  con- 
sideration when  you  consider  the  position  of  a  man 
who  has  such  popularity  as  this.  One  is,  what  has  he 
taken  into  himself  ?  and  the  other  is,  what  has  he  given 
out  from  himself? 

He  has  come  through  the  critical  years,  in  fact,  of 
American  history.  It  was  but  a  little  time  after  he 
commenced  his  pastorate  in  this  church  before  he 
heard  fi'om  afar  the  note  of  that  marvellous  war  down 
there  with  Mexico,  which  opened  to  us  that  great  south- 
western territory,  and  brought  us  into  close  relation- 
ship with  South  America,  and  affected  the  tone  of  our 
national  Hfe.  About  the  same  time  there  came  the  cry 
of  CaHfornia  gold,  and  the  rush  of  emigration  across  the 
west,  and  roads  were  opened,  and  presently  towns  and 
cities  began  to  spring  up,  and  a  new  country  was 
created. 


58  COMMEMOEATIYE  SeKVICES. 


Over  yonder,  Oregon  was  brought  into  close  con- 
nection by  the  struggle  over  its  limit  and  the  interest 
of  its  people,  and  a  cry  began  to  be  made  about  the 
northwest  territory.  By-and-by  railroads  were  pro- 
jected in  that  direction,  and  the  intimacy  between  the 
East  and  the  West  was  cultivated  until  the  heart  of  the 
people  in  all  these  great  interests  of  national  Hfe  be- 
came one.  And  all  this  time,  keen-eyed,  sympathies 
open,  he  was  in  the  thick  of  this  constantly  converging 
swell  of  human  impulses  and  influences,  and  growing 
with  it,  until  his  own  nature  became  as  broad.  And 
that  was  not  sufficient  for  him,  but  he  wanted  to  touch 
hands  and  hearts  with  the  people  of  other  lands. 

He  crossed  the  seas ;  heard  English  accentuation  of 
American  speech ;  went  among  the  Welsh  populations, 
and  the  Irish ;  and  he  would  lay  himself  alongside,  in 
brotherly  conscientious  and  earnest  Christian  service, 
with  the  old-world  workers,  and  got  all  that  was  best 
and  truest  and  strongest  out  of  their  life,  and  brought 
it  back  here ;  and  he  has  continued  to  cultivate  these 
sympathies.  He  has  gone  into  the  individual  and 
social  life  of  families  of  this  city,  as  well  as  of  other 
cities  and  foreign  lands.  He  has  seen  and  appreciated 
the  best  sides  and  best  qualities  of  social  life.  He  has 
gone  into  the  individual  life  of  cultivated  men  and  of 


Address  of  Bishop  Wilson.  59 


the  common  people.  He  has  gone  into  the  homes  of 
the  poor,  and  has  appreciated  their  need  and  the  nar- 
rowness of  their  lives. 

There  is  no  phase  of  onr  diversified  human  nature 
that  he  has  not  looked  into  and  which  has  not  w^orked 
upon  his  sympathies,  and  brought  them  out,  and  un- 
folded them,  until  he  claims  humanity  as  one  and  him- 
self imbedded  in  the  centre  of  its  great  brotherhood. 
It  is  just  because  he  has  gone  into  such  wideness  of 
sympathy  wdth  our  kind,  has  touched  so  many  sides  in 
human  life,  has  become  identified  with  so  many  inter- 
ests of  human  nature  ;  it  is  because  he  has  interchanged 
thoughts  with  so  many  forms  and  specimens  of  human 
character ;  because  he  has  wept  -svith  them  that  weep, 
rejoiced  with  them  that  rejoice,  under  all  the  manifold 
conditions  of  our  life  ;  it  is  because  of  these  that  he  has 
become  popular. 

Narrowness  shows  a  man  within  a  narrow  circle ; 
individual  narrowness  of  thought  and  feeling.  The 
man  who  looks  into  his  o^ti  household,  and  that  alone, 
and  never  gets  out  into  the  community,  never  gets  into 
the  broad  field  of  common  life  in  its  development  about 
him  :  who  does  not  know  any  thing  about  the  party  in- 
terests of  the  country,  and  which  is  right  and  w^hich  is 
wrong,  and  the  great  commercial  interests  of  the  country^ 


'60  Commemorative  Services. 


and  the  wants  of  the  great  masses  of  the  people,  rich 
and  poor  ;  the  man  who  thinks  only  of  what  is  going  to 
bnild  up  his  own  character  and  fortunes,  and  has  no 
other  concerns,  will  never  be  a  popular  man,  and  ought 
not  to  be. 

But  when  a  man  has  got  the  whole  broad  surface 
of  our  humanity,  with  its  infinite  variety  of  hfe  and 
issues  open  to  him,  you  may  make  him  popular  with- 
out danger  to  any  community.  And  when  a  man 
-comes  back  charged  in  this  way  with  the  profoundest 
concern  for  all  human  interests,  with  the  closest  sym- 
pathy with  all  human  conditions,  to  take  his  place,  not 
simply  as  a  minister  and  doctor,  but  as  a  man  among 
men,  to  whom  nothing  human  is  foreign,  when  he  is 
ready  to  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  the  toiler,  side 
by  side  with  the  sufferer  under  shadow  of  the  cloud, 
when  he  knows  man  as  man,  and  as  man  enters  into 
sympathetic  association  with  him,  you  may  trust  him, 
and  he  will  be  a  popular  man,  and  ought  to  be. 

And,  now,  you  see  what  the  result  is.  He  has  at- 
tained to  such  popularity  and  has  maintained  it  through 
all  these  years  without  any  sacrifice  of  fidelity  to  his 
creed.  I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that,  because  you  often- 
times hear  men  talking  of  the  narrowness  of  a  man  who 
■adheres  to  his  creed.     You  heard  Dr.  Hall  say  a  while 


Address  of  Bishop  Wilson.  6L 


ago  that  people  considered  him  orthodox.  I  am  glad 
he  is  so  considered.  I  would  not  have  the  opinion  I 
have  of  him,  if  I  did  not  believe  he  was  true  to  that  old 
creed  of  his.  Everybody  that  knows  him  knows  that 
he  does  not  compromise  by  any  utterance  of  his  any 
conviction  in  that  matter.  His  rehgion  is  based  upon 
his  creed ;  he  adheres  to  that,  and  he  preaches  that  to 
you  so  well  that  you  know  what  it  is.  Never  compro- 
mised it  for  the  sake  of  party  applause.  Has  never 
gone  out  into  any  part  of  the  country  and  toned  it 
doAvn  to  suit  the  taste  of  special  associations.  Wherever 
he  has  been,  in  whatever  capacity  he  has  been  called 
upon  to  present  himself  and  act,  he  has  gone  as  a  Pres- 
byterian and  a  representative  of  the  Presbyterian  faith, 
and  has  honestly  done  his  work  in  conformity  vnth.  his 
creed ;  and  his  popularity  has  not  broken  down  by  it 
either. 

I  Hke  it,  I  am  glad  to  say,  even  if  it  is  not  my  creed  ; 
I  rejoice  in  it.  That  a  man  can  hold  a  creed  as  old  as 
that  with  such  a  vast  body  of  divine  'truth  in  it,  and  still 
maintain  the  breadth  of  life  that  characterizes  him,  and 
maintain  his  hold  upon  the  broad  mass  of  the  people  of 
every  creed  and  form  of  creed — it  is  something  to  think 
about  and  something  to  rejoice  over. 

It  is  a  very  common  thing  to  hear  men  talk  about. 


62  Commemorative  Services. 


devotion  to  the  Scriptures  as  being  a  mark  of  a  narrow 
mind.  What  folly!  The  broadest-minded  man  that 
ever  walked  this  earth — the  only  man  that  ever  did 
enter  completely  into  human  wants  and  sympathies  and 
took  in  all  the  phases  and  all  the  characteristics  of  our 
nature  and  life,  was  the  Son  of  God  and  Son  of  Man ;  and 
he  was  the  broadest-minded  man,  because  he  laid  down 
his  life  for  the  world.  That  is  more  than  your  critics 
of  our  creeds  will  do. 

And,  now,  what  has  he  given  out  in  all  this  time? 
With  all  his  breadth  of  sympathy,  he  has  maintained 
unalterably  and  at  all  times  his  individual  convictions 
upon  every  point  that  has  been  brought  before  him  re- 
quiring a  conviction.  I  reckon  you  know  all  about  that, 
too.  He  has  had  the  manhood  to  form  his  own  opin- 
ions, to  sift  them,  to  test  them ;  and,  if  they  were  the 
right  kind  of  convictions,  he  would  yield  them  to  no 
man. 

A  good  many  questions  have  come  up  in  these  forty- 
five  years.  First,  your  course  of  poHtical  history ;  then, 
your  course  of  social  history,  which  has  threatened  all 
our  relations  in  all  the  aspects  of  them.  The  multi- 
phed  and  complex  problems  that  have  been  presented 
in  the  changed  conditions  of  labor  and  of  capital  have 
been  forced  upon  our  attention. 


Address  of  Bishop  Wilson.  63 


Do  you  suppose  that,  standing  here  in  the  centre  of 
them,  with  all  the  avenues  of  thought  and  life  pouring 
in  their  tides  of  influence  upon  him,  he  has  been  indif- 
ferent to  any  one  of  these  questions  ?  I  do  not  believe 
it,  and  neither  do  you. 

Not  a  man  of  us  standing  here  can  understand  the 
import  and  immense  interest  of  these  things,  and  not 
think  about  them  and  reach  conclusions. 

I  never  knew  a  man  yet  that  had  a  congregation 
united  upon  any  of  these  questions ;  and  the  strongest 
temptation  that  a  minister  of  the  gospel  has  is  to  com- 
promise his  opinion  and  conviction  upon  these  points 
so  as  to  keep  the  peace,  prevent  disorder ;  and  yet  he 
has  learned  to  read  that  word  of  Scripture,  "First 
pure,  then  peaceable,"  and  has  held  to  his  own  convic- 
tions and  has  made  no  enemies  by  it.  That  is  the  mar- 
vel of  it.  I  do  not  know  how  it  has  happened.  There 
is  in  it  something  more  than  mere  human  fidelity. 
There  is  a  grace  of  God  about  it,  and  the  power  of 
God's  Spirit  involved  in  it — that  a  man  can  stand  up 
forty -five  years  true  to  himself,  his  creed,  honest  in  all 
his  convictions,  determined  in  his  attitude  and  his  re- 
lations to  his  people,  and  yet  cast  up  no  element  of 
antagonism,  and  stir  no  strife  or  discord  among  his 
people  (I  hear  you  have  never  had  a  strife  in  your 


64  Commemorative  Seeyices. 


church) — it  is  a  marvel ;  and  when  a  man  has  attained 
a  position  hke  that,  without  compromise,  mthout  for- 
feiture of  manhood,  without  giving  up  his  own  convic- 
tions, he  can  touch  the  great  body  and  mass  of  the 
people.  That  is  the  sort  of  man  I  want  to  see  in  mis- 
sion work. 

I  confess  that  my  only  regret  about  the  matter  is, 
that  you  have  had  him  so  long.  Such  a  man  ought 
not  to  be  shut  down  in  any  one  place.  You  know  I 
am  a  Methodist.  He  ought  to  itinerate,  and  bring  all 
these  qualities  of  his  along  ^dth  him. 

Why,  just  see !  He  went  doT\Ti  to  Old  Market  Hall 
four  or  five  years  ago ;  staiied  to  preach ;  kept  on 
preaching  here  in  his  own  church,  I  believe,  morn- 
ing and  afternoon,  and  went  down  there  at  night ; 
the  people  in  the  community  recognized  him  at  once 
for  what  he  was.  It  was  not  simply  the  name  of 
Moses  D.  Hoge  that  brought  those  people  to  that  mis- 
sion, but  it  was  the  fact  that  they  knew  the  man  in  him, 
and  they  came,  and  when  they  once  came  they  kept  on 
coming,  and  they  filled  that  place  after  a  while,  and  the 
Sunday-school,  and  the  work  became  too  much  for  him. 
If  you  had  let  him  he  would  have  built  another  Second 
Presbyterian  Church ;  and  it  may,  it  will,  be  done  anyhow. 
And  then  Brother  TurnbuU  came ;  he  is  the  man  to  do 


Address  of  Bishop  Wilson.  65 


mission  work.  Let  him  get  all  the  common  people  and 
the  poor  people  together ;  let  him  go  among  the  classes 
his  Master  delighted  to  serve,  and  you  will  see  grand 
results.     I  congratulate  Dr.  Hoge  and  you. 

I  have  much  more  to  say,  but  they  will  not  allow  me 
more  than  fifteen  minutes.  I  will  wind  up  with  this, 
simply:  Neither  you  nor  any  of  these  distinguished 
gentlemen,  who  have  or  shall  address  you  to-night, 
have  any  idea  of  glorifying  the  man.  I  am  sure  that 
our  last  utterance  in  the  case  will  accord  with  his  own 
thought,  and  the  words  of  his  great  predecessor  in  apos- 
toHc  ministry:  "They  glorified  God  in  me." 


•   •   •   • 

Mr.  M.  M.  Gilliam  then  said:  "The  next  speaker  for 
this  occasion  in  his  denominational  character  represents  the 
largest  body  of  Christian  workers  in  our  midst.  As  a  phil- 
anthropist, his  distinguished  ser\dces  in  behalf  of  education 
in  oui'  South  land  have  secured  for  him  the  admii-ation  and 
gi-ateful  appreciation  of  his  countrymen.  As  a  statesman 
he  is  known  to  fame  at  home  and  abroad.  He  is  a  diligent 
student  of  sacred  and  profane  history  ;  a  lover  of  art  and  of 
the  sciences ;  a  scholar  of  great  culture,  versed  in  ancient 
lore,  and  fragrant  with  the  best  literature  of  the  day.  He 
is  here  with  his  splendid  acquisitions  and  facile  speech  to 
add  grace  and  lustre  to  this  occasion,  and  to  contribute  to 
the  pleasure  of  this  august  assemblage. 

"  This  leads  me  to  introduce  the  Hon.  J.  L.  M.  Curry, 
of  Virginia." 


I^ddress  of  Dr.  §urry. 

(5 1  HE  distinguished  Bishop  who  has  just  taken  his 
ell     seat  expresses  a  regret  that  the  limited  time  al- 
lowed did  not  permit  him  to  express  much  that  is  in 


Address  of  Dr.  Curry.  67 


his  mind  and  heart.  We  all  share  in  that  regret,  and 
if  the  rule  which  prevails  in  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives at  Washington  be  in  force  here,  I  will  most  cheer- 
fully give  him  a  part  or  all  of  the  time  allotted  to  me. 
This  surrender  will  work  no  mischief  nor  disappoint- 
ment, for  this  large  audience,  representing  all  grades 
of  society  and  all  forms  of  behef,  is  made  up  mainly  of 
residents  of  our  noble  city,  and  has  frequent  oppor- 
tunities of  hearing  me — "  the  poor  ye  have  always  with 
you."  If  he  will  not  accept  this  proposition,  I  may  re- 
mark that  two  inferences  are  clearly  deducible  from 
this  unique,  almost-jubilee  service. 

(a).  That  there  is  a  large  portion  of  the  American 
people  who  adhere  with  conscientious  fidehty  to  an 
old-fashioned,  orthodox  Christianity. 

(h).  That  despite,  perhaps  I  should  rather  say,  in 
consequence  of  denominational  lines  and  divergences,, 
there  is  among  Christians  an  extraordinary  consensus 
of  opinion  on  fundamental  points.  It  may  not  be  im- 
proper for  me  to  accentuate  this  statement.  On  mat- 
ters essential  to  salvation,  and  on  others  important  but 
not  so  vital,  there  is  a  marvelous  harmony  of  behef. 
It  may  surprise  some  who  hear  so  much  of  the  odium 
theologicum,  and  of  EationaHsm,  and  of  the  New  The- 
ology, to  know  that  Presbyterians,  Baptists,  Metho- 


Commemorative  Services. 


dists,  Episcopalians,  Congregationalists  and  Lutherans, 
with  all  their  varied  sub-divisions,  hold  (1),  to  an  invisi- 
ble church,  a  pure  spiritual  society  of  obedient  be- 
lievers ;  (2),  to  the  complete  deposit  of  revealed  truth 
with  Christ  and  his  immediate  apostles,  and  that  the 
Holy  Scriptures  contain  all  things  necessary  to  salva- 
tion ;  and  (3),  that  Jesus,  the  Christ  of  our  God,  died 
for  us,  was  buried,  rose  again,  and  lives  as  the  Saviour 
of  sinners. 

As  others  have  spoken  of  Dr.  Hoge's  labors  and 
services  in  this  his  ovra  country,  let  me  refer  to  his 
trans- Atlantic  experiences.  Many  delighted  audiences 
have  listened  to  his  lectures — "  Social  Life  in  England,'* 
"  Tent  Life  in  the  East,"  and  "  Land  of  the  Midnight 
Sun  " — in  which  have  been  illustrated  his  varied  powers 
of  close  observation,  broad  sympathy,  love  of  nature 
and  art,  graphic  portraiture  of  places  and  events  and 
men,  and  his  gently  subduing  or  overmastering  elo- 
quence. It  is  not,  however,  to  him  as  a  mere  traveller 
in  search  of  pleasure  or  strength,  that  I  wish  to  caU 
your  attention,  but  to  him  as  a  representative,  fiUing 
high  positions,  discharging  public  trusts. 

Dr.  Hoge  represented  the  Christians  of  the  South 
in  the  dark  and  perilous  days,  when,  amid  hunger  and 
destitution  of  material  things,  they  would  feed  the  suf- 


Address  of  Dr.  Curry. 


fering  people  mth  the  Bread  of  Life,  and  make  their 
civil  institutions  and  personal  conduct  conform  to  the 
infallible  teachings  of  the  Divine  One.  Running  the 
gauntlet,  going  and  returning,  of  a  rigid  and  vigilant 
blockade,  he  visited  England  and  succeeded  in  getting 
and  bringing  back  many  thousand  copies  of  the  Scrip- 
tures for  distribution  among  our  soldiers  in  camps  and 
hospitals. 

As  representative  of  Presbyterianism,  in  the  Pan- 
Presbyterian  Council  at  Edinburgh,  he  bore  himself 
with  such  dignity  and  grace  as  to  win  abroad  the  repu- 
tation which  he  had  secured  at  home  for  abihty  and 
eloquence  in  pulpit  and  on  platform.  As  delegate  to 
the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  Copenhagen  he  touched  el- 
bows with  the  learning  and  thought  and  expanded 
sympathies  of  the  Christians  of  Europe  and  America, 
and  by  his  fervid  enforcement  of  family  religion,  of 
home  piety,  captivated  the  entire  assembly. 

We  are  rather  boastful  of  the  influence  of  American 
ideas  and  institutions  on  international  law,  on  systems 
and  poHcies  of  government,  on  great  truths  of  personal 
and  religious  liberty.  And  we  hold  that  the  quadri- 
centennial  celebration  of  the  discovery  of  America  will 
find  its  cro^Tiing,  consummate  glory  in  what  has  been 
wrought  for  humanity  and  Christ,  for  social,  poHtical 


70  Commemorative  Services. 


and  industrial  regeneration  -within  the  Hmits  and  through 
the  influence  of  our  complex  and  related  govemments 
and  our  representative  institutions.  We  have  not  been 
able  to  congratulate  ourselves  on  like  beneficial  religi- 
ous results  flowing  backwards  to  mother  countries. 
Dr.  Hoge,  however,  among  the  few,  has  been  useful,  we 
may  say  conspicuous,  in  foreign  religious  assemblies,  in 
foreign  pulpits,  in  association  with  the  cultured,  in 
making  a  favorable  impression  for  American  Christi- 
anity. 

I  do  not  like  hyphened  Americans — German-Ameri- 
cans, Irish-Americans.  I  beg  pardon.  Of  course  this 
remark  has  no  application  to  the  distinguished  guest, 
the  eloquent  preacher  from  New  York.  He  has  lived 
in  our  country  twenty-three  years,  and  is  an  American 
of  full  age,  who  has  made  full  proof  of  his  citizenship. 
It  is  said  that  in  his  city,  prior  to  an  election,  there  are 
short  methods  of  naturahzing  by  wholesale,  iiTespec- 
tive  of  the  precedent  conditions  which  the  law  demands. 
If  he  be  not  content  with  citizenship,  regularly  obtained 
in  the  great  continental  emporium,  I  would  propose 
that  we  here  to-night,  by  enthusiastic  and  unanimous 
action  of  this  assembly,  all  denominations  of  Christians 
concurring,  declare  him  a  native  of  Richmond,  a  fuU- 
bom  Virginian,  true  and  accepted;  and  as  we  have 


Address  of  Dr.  Curry.  71 


here  the  governor,  the  Heutenant-governor  and  mayor, 
the  legislative,  judicial  and  municipal  departments  as 
well,  the  citizenship  need  never  hereafter  be  called  in 
question  [turning  to  Dr.  Hall].  So,  Dr.  Hall,  I  wel- 
come you  as  a  full-born,  native  Virginian ;  and  yet  I 
must  be  permitted,  in  all  frankness,  to  say,  that  I  do 
not  like  hyphened  Americans,  as  indicating  a  double 
nationahty,  a  divided  allegiance,  and  so  I  want  no  hy- 
phened Christianity,  for  we  trace  its  genesis  to  a  com- 
mon origin,  to  one  Mediator,  the  Christ,  and  the  com- 
pleted and  inspired  Scriptures.  And  yet,  Christianity 
has  had,  in  doctrine  and  ethics,  in  unfolding  of  the 
riches  of  its  meaning,  an  evolution,  a  natural  develop- 
ment here,  because  less  embarrassed  by  traditions,  by 
usurpations,  by  stereotyped  observances  of  what  grew 
up  under  environments  that  have  never  prevailed  in 
the  United  States.  Of  this  American  Christianity  our 
friend  and  brother  has  been  a  fit  and  honored  represen- 
tative. He  has  preached  in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland, 
Wales,  on  the  continent,  in  Africa  and  in  Asia ;  and  as 
confirmatory  of  what  I  have  affirmed  of  our  common 
attachment  to  the  one  universal  Christ,  the  "old,  old 
story,"  as  he  proclaimed  it,  has  met  a  like  response 
from  Christian  hearts  in  widely  distant  lands.  The  elo- 
quent Bishop  has  said  that  such  a  preacher  as  Dr.  Hoge 


72  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


should  itinerate,  and  that  one  place  should  not  mono- 
poHze  his  pulpit  ministrations.  With  due  humihty  I 
respectfully  suggest  that  his  diocese  has  been  a  large 
one,  and  that  few  itinerants  have  had  such  large  op- 
portunities for  utiHzing  their  gifts.  It  is  a  singular 
fact  that  two  of  his  present  congregation,  eager  sharers 
in  this  joyous  celebration,  have  heard  their  pastor  on 
four  continents.  Dr.  Hoge  has  shown  his  catholic 
Christianity  by  sitting  under  the  ministry  of  those  who 
have  illustrated  in  their  labors  the  power,  the  univer- 
sahty,  and  the  all-sufficiency  of  the  gospel.  To  hear 
Parker,  Liddon,  Spurgeon,  to  worship  in  tabernacle 
and  cathedral,  to  rejoice  in  a  common  faith,  that  is 
genuine  cathohcity. 

Dr.  Hoge  is  a  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
a  distinguished  and  noble  representative  of  that  con- 
servative enhghtened  body  of  Christians,  remarkable 
for  their  sobriety,  faithfulness  to  obligations,  benefi- 
cence, loyalty  to  their  creed  and  martyred  devotion  to 
liberty.  That  other  denominations  should  unite  in  this 
public  service  to  do  him  honor,  to  recognize  his  long 
and  laborious,  successful  and  unbroken  pastorate,  has 
something  in  it,  Hke  the  echo  of  fame  from  foreign 
shores,  very  suggestive  of,  very  near  akin  to,  not  pos- 
thumous, but  anterior  immortahty.     He  has  the  satis- 


Address  of  Dr.  Curry.  73 


faction  of  knowing  in  advance  the  verdict  of  posterity 
upon  his  life  and  labors.  Here  is  the  disinterested, 
unprejudiced  estimate,  not  of  the  partial,  affectionate 
household  exclusively,  but  of  those  of  other  commu- 
nions, who  look  not  through  the  colored  medium  of  in- 
timate acquaintance,  of  church  fellowship,  but  through 
the  clear,  white  light  of  calm  observation  and  of  un- 
biased judgment. 

Dr.  Watts  has  said — 

' '  How  beauteous  are  their  feet 

Who  stand  on  Zion's  hill ! 
Who  bring  salvation  on  their  tongues, 
And  words  of  peace  reveal. " 

Our  friend,  while  alluring  others  to  brighter  worlds,^ 
has  himself  been  a  ''living  sermon  of  the  truths"  he 
has  taught.  His  parish  has  not  been  solely  his  own 
membership,  not  contracted  closely  within  narrow 
streets,  but  wherever  humanity  has  summoned  him  he 
has  been 

' ' at  hand,  without  request, 

To  serve  the  sick,  to  succor  the  distressed." 


CDoL  Bar(c$&ale. 


Col.  C.  R.  Baeksdale  then  said: 

"  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  the  pleasing  duty  now  devolves 
upon  me  to  announce  the  name  of  another  distinguished  di- 
vine, who  will  address  you  next  on  this  most  interesting  and 
enjoyable  occasion. 

"  This  gentleman  needs  no  formal  introduction  to  a  Vir- 
ginia audience,  and  I  have  only  to  announce  the  name  of 
Bishop  Randolph,  of  the  Diocese  of  Virginia,  to  secure  for 
him  a  cordial  welcome  and  your  undivided  attention." 


/address  of  Bisl^op  l^apdolpl;. 


I  MAY  be  pardoned  if  I  begin  the  few  words  I  have 
to  say  with  what  may  seem  to  be  personal  references. 
I  remember  with  much  vividness  and  gratitude  the  im- 
pression made  upon  me  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Plumer,  both 
in  the  pulpit  and  as  a  guest  in  my  own  ancestral  home. 
The  power  of  his  preaching,  the  graciousness  of  his 


Address  of  Bishop  Eandolph.  75 


manners,  the  tenderness  of  his  prayers  at  onr  family 
altar,  live  in  my  memory  to-day,  though  forty  years 
have  passed  since  then.  It  was  my  privilege  to  hear 
him  again  in  the  last  years  of  his  life,  and  to  be  with 
him  during  the  days  of  his  suffering,  and  when  he  was 
near  to  the  hour  of  death.  Long  years  ago  he  began 
the  work  to  which  my  friend  and  brother  succeeded, 
and  upon  which  he  has  been  steadily  building  and 
widening  during  forty-five  years  of  blessed  ministry. 

Here  and  there  along  my  life  it  has  been  my  privi- 
lege to  sit  under  his  preaching.  That  preaching  has 
always  kindled  my  intellect  and  warmed  my  heart,  and 
given  me  new  impulses  of  hope  in  the  duties  of  my 
calling.  A  few  years  ago  I  parted  from  a  dear  mem- 
ber of  my  family.  He  left  us  to  study  for  his  profes- 
sion in  one  of  the  great  universities  of  Europe.  Often 
in  my  prayers  I  asked  that  he  might  be  protected  from 
the  reHgious  indifference  and  skepticism  which  charac- 
terized the  great  city  in  which  he  lived  for  nearly  two 
years.  On  his  return,  the  first  Sunday  he  spent  with 
us,  he  went  to  the  worship  in  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church.  As  long  as  he  was  in  the  city,  no  engagement 
was  permitted  to  interfere  with,  his  attendance  upon 
these  afternoon  ser\dces.  Upon  my  coming  home  in 
the  week,  in  the  quiet  hours  in  my  study,  he  would  tell 


76  Commemorative  Services. 


me  of  the  current  of  thouglit  in  the  sermon.  I  could 
see  that  he  was  touched  and  deeply  impressed.  That 
gladdened  my  heart  and  warmed  it  toward  my  friend 
and  brother  more  than  I  can  tell  you.  In  some  sense, 
then,  I  may  claim  with  you,  his  people,  to  have  shared 
the  benefits  of  your  pastor's  ministry.  To  describe  the 
relations  and  associations,  and  to  analyze  the  influences 
upon  you,  his  congregation,  and  upon  the  community,  of 
such  a  ministry,  extending  over  forty-five  years,  would  be 
too  much  to  ask  of  me  in  the  brief  time  at  my  disposal. 
The  relations  of  a  pastor  to  his  flock,  of  a  preacher  to 
his  people,  are  absolutely  unique.  The  lawyer  is  the 
trusted  friend  of  his  clients ;  the  family  physician,  who 
ministers  to  us  in  our  hours  of  weakness  and  suffering, 
has  his  deep  place  in  our  hearts  hke  one  of  the  sacred  cir- 
cle of  our  home.  But  the  pastor,  whose  preaching  has 
moved  and  warmed  and  illumined  and  comforted  our 
souls,  and  perchance  been  the  instrument  in  God's 
hands  to  bring  us  to  Christ ;  who  has  moved  as  a  cen- 
tral figure  through  all  the  scenes  of  our  joy  and  our 
sorrow;  who  has  baptized  our  little  children,  married 
our  young  men  and  maidens,  buried  our  dead,  and 
comforted  our  sorrows, — such  associations  engender 
relations  which  partake  of  the  nature  of  the  elements 
with  which  they  deal.     They  have  in  them  something 


Address  of  Bishop  Kandolph.  77 


of  the  imperishable,  the  immortal.  And  these  ties  have 
been  deepened  in  your  case  by  circumstances  which, 
though  not  absolutely  without  precedent,  are  still  ex- 
ceptional. 

Your  pastor  has  been  asked  and  urged  time  and 
again  to  leave  you,  his  congregation,  to  leave  his  home 
in  Richmond,  by  prominent  churches  in  many  of  the 
great  cities  of  the  country — in  New  York  and  Boston 
and  Baltimore,  in  the  North  and  the  South  and  the 
West;  but  he  has  said,  "No;  this  people  is  my  peo- 
ple, and  God  means  me  to  give  my  life  and  my  labors 
to  them." 

Many  of  you  remember  the  agitation  in  your  con- 
gregation and  throughout  the  city  of  Richmond  a  few 
years  ago,  when  Dr.  Hoge  was  called  to  an  important 
church  in  the  South-west,  in  the  city  of  Nashville. 
PecuHar  circumstances  connected  vnth  the  position  of 
that  church  in  relation  to  the  church  at  large  seemed 
to  render  the  call  almost  imperative.  There  was  a 
period  of  suspense  as  to  whether  or  not  it  would  be  ac- 
cepted, extending,  I  believe,  over  many  weeks.  As 
Sunday  after  Sunday  passed  without  the  decision,  the 
fear  began  to  awaken  in  the  hearts  of  the  whole  people 
that  they  might  lose  his  valued  ministry.  A  petition, 
drawn  up  with  great  tenderness  and  dignity,  was  pre- 


78  COMMEMOBATIYE  SERVICES. 


sented  to  the  Doctor.  Many  hundreds  of  names  were 
attached  to  that  petition,  representing  all  of  the 
churches,  all  of  the  professions,  and  all  classes  of  the 
people  in  our  city ;  and  in  addition  to  these,  the  chil- 
dren of  the  Sunday-school  came  with  their  appeal  to 
their  pastor  not  to  leave  them.  The  operatives  of  the 
Tredegar  works,  many  of  whose  faces  he  had  perhaps 
never  seen,  but  who  had  been  touched  by  his  preaching 
and  had  felt  the  blessing  of  his  ministrations  and  those 
of  his  congregation  among  the  poor,  asked  him  not  to 
leave  them.  This  last,  he  says,  touched  him,  moved 
him  to  the  heart.  He  declines  this  call,  and  the  peo- 
ple in  the  church  and  in  the  streets  gather  around  him 
and  tell  him  how  glad  and  comforted  they  are. 

The  relation  of  this  ministry  to  other  churches  and 
to  the  community  at  large  in  the  city  of  Eichmond  find 
their  best  illustration  in  the  character  of  the  congrega- 
tions which  gather  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
on^he  afternoons  of  Sunday.  To  one  acquainted  with 
the  people  of  this  city,  in  looking  around  upon  that 
congregation  as  it  has  gathered  there  to  hear  the 
preacher  for  many  years  past,  it  would  be  difiicult  to 
tell,  but  for  the  forms  of  the  worship,  the  name  of  the 
church  we  are  in. 

You  see  around  you  Methodists  and  Presbyterians,. 


Address  of  Bishop  Eandolph.  79 


Episcopalians  and  Baptists,  all  singing  the  hymns  and 
joining  in  the  worship  and  listening  with  rapt  attention 
to  the  words  of  the  preacher.  It  has  been  said  that  there 
is  less  denominational  jealousy,  and  more  of  the  broad, 
sweet  spirit  of  Christian  unity,  among  the  churches  in 
the  city  of  Richmond  than  in  the  majority  of  communi- 
ties in  our  land.  A  blessed  thing  it  is  to  say  of  any  com- 
munity, for  its  civiHzation,  for  its  Hght,  its  education, 
its  Christian  manhood  and  womanhood ;  it  is  blessed, 
if  it  be  so.  Why  should  it  not  be  so  ?  If  men  can  do 
business  together  in  the  same  offices,  in  the  same 
stores;  if  women  can  mingle  in  the  same  circles  of 
social  and  family  life  in  a  thousand  homes,  cannot  they 
worship  God  together  ?  Cannot  they  listen  to  the 
preaching  of  Christ's  gospel  together  ?  Perhaps  these 
afternoon  services  have  helped  to  educate  our  people 
into  the  great  principles  of  practical  Christian  unity. 
Perhaps  they  have  helped  to  put  your  city  in  the  ad- 
vance ranks  of  that  great  movement  throughout  Chris- 
tendom for  Christian  unity.  The  tide  is  moving  and 
rising  along  the  lines  of  all  the  churches  in  Christendom. 
The  day  is  coming  when  jealousies  between  churches 
and  rivalries  between  preachers  and  the  sharp  tongues 
of  sectarian  exclusiveness  ^^dll  be  numbered  among  the 
things  of  the  past.     It  will  come,  it  is  coming  ;  not  by 


80  COMMEMOEATIYE  SERVICES. 


what  you  call  the  obhteration  of  denominational  dif- 
ferences ;  not  by  all  churches  consenting  to  merge  them- 
selves into  one  organism,  and  subscribe  to  one  confes- 
sion of  faith  and  one  theological  system;  not  when 
Christendom  in  its  million  churches  will  repeat  the 
same  prayers  and  worship  through  the  same  litany  and 
chant  the  same  anthems.  That  would  be  the  unity  of 
sameness,  the  unity  of  uniformity,  the  unity  of  the 
sands  upon  the  sea  shore — all  ahke,  yet  separate,  and 
with  no  living  bond  between  then.  This  unity  that  is 
coming  will  be  like  the  unity  of  nature,  one  spirit  under 
diversity  of  form ;  one  hving  force  under  diversity  of 
operation ;  one  Lord,  one  faith,  one  baptism,  one  God 
and  Father  of  all,  who  is  above  all,  and  ^ith  you  all, 
and  in  you  all.  How  far  ahead  of  his  time  Paul  was ! 
The  Corinthians  divided  into  parties ;  the  watch -word 
of  one  party  was,  "I  am  of  Paul";  of  another,  "I  am 
of  Apollos";  another,  "I  am  of  Cephas."  How  Paul 
lifts  them,  and  lifts  the  church  of  all  ages,  out  of  its 
inveterate  tendency  to  glory  in  itself,  to  glory  in  men ! 
He  tells  them  that  the  ministry  is  your  servant  for 
Jesus'  sake.  The  ministry,  with  all  its  gifts,  belongs, 
not  to  itself,  but  to  you.  All  things  are  yours.  The 
faith  and  the  fire  of  Cephas;  the  eloquence  and  the 
grace  of  Apollos  ;  the  logic  and  the  fervor  of  Paul — all 


Address  of  Bishop  Bandolph.  81 


are  yours.  All  the  ministers  and  churches  of  this  city 
belong  to  each  and  every  one  of  you  Christian  people. 
Dr.  Hoge,  your  own  minister,  as  a  preacher,  as  a  teacher, 
belongs  to  me  as  well  as  to  you,  and  the  varied  gifts  of 
every  other  minister  in  this  city  belong  to  us  all — they 
are  all  our  servants  for  Jesus'  sake.  But  I  must  not 
detain  you  from  others  who  are  to  address  you  on  this 
deeply  interesting  occasion.  This  long  ministry  of 
forty-five  years  among  you,  growing  and  deepening 
through  the  years,  gathering  larger  crowTls  to-day  un- 
der its  preaching  than  at  any  other  period  of  its  his- 
tory, old  in  years,  but  young  in  the  enthusiasm  and  the 
love  of  all  the  people,  is  a  signal  refutation,  is  it  not,, 
of  the  common  criticism  of  the  indifferent  and  skepti- 
cal classes  of  our  age,  that  the  pulpit  has  lost  its 
power?  that  the  mission  of  the  preacher  is  done? 
They  tell  us  that  the  age  is  a  practical,  a  materialistic 
age ;  that  men  are  in  haste  to  be  rich,  or  hurrying  after 
pleasure,  or  driven  by  passion,  and  that  they  will  not 
listen  to  the  preacher.  Is  this  so  ?  This  man  whom 
you  honor  to-night  has  been  preaching  here  forty-five 
years.  Visit  his  church  on  Sunday  evening,  and  there 
are  young  men  and  old,  a  thronged  assemblage.  They 
are  listening  to  the  preacher  they  have  heard  hundreds 
of  times.  Would  they  listen  that  way  to  a  lecturer  upon 
6 


82  Commemorative  Services. 


science  ?  The  scientific  lecturer  would  tell  them  about 
the  structure  of  their  bodies,  about  the  laws  of  heat  and 
electricity,  about  the  conservation  and  correlation  of 
forces.  How  long  do  you  suppose  he  would  hold  them, 
listening  there  to  him,  thronging  to  hear  him  ?  Twenty 
years  ?  ten  years  ?  one  year  ?  Oh !  no.  Men  must 
listen  to  the  gospel ;  they  have  their  sins,  their  sorrows, 
their  battles  with  doubt  and  temptations,  the  fear  of 
death,  their  cry  for  help  in  -sdew  of  the  great  hereafter ; 
human  guilt  and  Christ's  redemption ;  man  the  prodi- 
gal, and  God  the  Father  welcoming  him  home ;  death 
and  judgment  and  eternity.  Men  will  listen  to  these 
themes,  and  they  will  never  cease  to  listen. 

They  tell  us  of  the  intellectual  activity  of  our  times 
which  has  developed  out  of  the  reach  of  preaching.  Is 
that  true  ?  It  may  seem  so  on  the  surface.  The  print- 
ing press  and  the  universal  diffusion  of  the  vehicles  of 
knowledge  may  have  brought  thousands  of  minds  into 
contact  with  doubt  and  unbelief,  and  shaken  their  faith 
in  the  old  creed,  but  the  Christian  church  and  the 
Christian  minister  are,  and  ought  to  be,  the  last  to  fear 
intellectual  activity  among  the  people.  I  venture  to 
say  that  the  pulpit  in  this  city  is  its  most  potent  agent 
for  the  intellectaal  development  of  its  people.  The 
pulpit  is  the  last  to  fear  intellectual  culture  and  thought 


Address  of  Bishop  Eandolph.  83 


among  the  people.  Would  to  God  there  were  more 
intellectual  activity !  I  have  yet  to  hear  that  our  ball- 
rooms and  parties  are  deserted,  and  have  to  be  aban- 
doned because  our  young  ladies  spend  their  evenings 
exclusively  in  intellectual  pursuits,  or  that  our  young 
men  are  unfitted  for  their  business  in  offices  and  count- 
ing-rooms during  the  day,  because  they  have  been 
spending  the  night  in  poring  over  the  philosophy  of 
Herbert  Spencer.  The  truth  is,  men  are  the  same  in 
all  ages — God  is  the  same,  Jesus  Christ  is  the  same, 
and  human  nature  is  the  same.  It  is  still  open  to  the 
voice  of  God;  it  is  still  moved  by  the  Word  of  his 
Spirit ;  it  is  still  touched  and  won  by  the  story  of  a 
Redeemer's  love.  Forty-five  years  for  a  single  minis- 
try is  a  long  test  of  these  principles.  How  long,  how 
nobly  has  the  gospel,  spoken  here  by  our  honored 
brother,  stood  the  test,  and  will  stand  it  in  years  to 
come ! 

In  the  days  of  the  Protectorate,  under  OHver 
CromweU,  a  merchant  in  London  goes  on  a  business 
tour  through  Scotland.  On  his  return  home,  he  is  tell- 
ing a  circle  of  his  friends  the  incidents  of  his  journey. 
"  I  went  to  St.  Andrews,  where  I  heard  a  sweet,  majes- 
tic-looking man  (Blair),  and  he  showed  me  the  majesty 
of  God ;  after  him,  I  heard  a  Httle  fair  man  (Ruther- 


84  COMMEMORATIYE  SeRYICES. 


ford),  and  he  showed  me  the  lovehness  of  Christ;  I 
then  went  to  Ir\ine,  where  I  heard  a  well-formed,  pro- 
per old  man,  with  a  long  beard  (Dickson),  and  that 
man  showed  me  all  my  own  heart."  What  an  ideal 
preacher  the  combination  of  these  three  would  make — 
the  preacher  who  can  show  sinners  the  majesty  of 
God,  the  loveliness  of  Christ,  and  the  deep  places  of 
the  human  heart!  I  believe  my  friend  and  brother 
tries  to  do  that.  God  has  given  him  great  gifts  of 
grace,  gifts  of  intellect,  gifts  of  broad,  loving  sympathy, 
gifts  of  voice  and  physical  health  to  bear  the  long  strain 
of  preaching  the  gospel  with  exceptional  power  to  the 
same  people  for  forty-five  years.  For  your  sake,  for 
our  children's  sake,  for  our  city  and  for  all  of  our 
churches,  we  must  pray  that  it  may  please  God  to  keep 
his  body  still  strong,  his  heart  humble,  his  spirit  more 
and  more  fervent  with  the  love  pi  Christ  and  of  souls, 
the  fire  of  his  intellect  burning  brightly  to  the  last — 
still  preaching  the  old  gospel  to  you  and  your  children 
in  the  coming  years — and  after  that  is  done,  then  may 
come  the  rest  and  the  glory  and  the  fulfilment  of  the 
promise,  "  They  that  turn  many  to  righteousness  shall 
shine  as  the  stars  for  ever  and  ever."  That  is  the 
prayer  that  we  must  pray  for  him  to-night. 


ften.  Pegtott  H.  Hog^t  ®^  ®^ 


Rev.  Peyton  Haeeison  Hoge  then  said:  "As  the  repre- 
sentative of  that  Southern  Presbyterian  Chui'ch  to  which 
Dr.  Hoge  has  given  the  best  labors  of  his  heart  and  brain 
ever  since  he  saw  it  launched  with  faith  and  tears,  amidst 
storms  and  clouds,  I  have  the  pleasui*e  of  introducing  one  to 
whom  it  has  been  given  in  no  small  degree  to  aid  in  forward- 
ing its  interests  and  in  guiding  its  destinies  upon  calmer  seas 
and  beneath  serener  skies ;  one  who  is  the  honored  pastor  of 
that  old  church  from  which  in  the  days  of  the  sainted  Plumer 
the  Httle  band  was  led  forth  forty-five  years  ago  that  now 
celebrates  this  anniversary  to-night.  I  have  the  pleasure  of 
introducing  to  you  the  Rev.  Robert  P.  Kerr,  of  the  Fii'st 
Presbyterian  Church  of  this  citj." 


/Address  of  Dr.  l^err. 

I  AM  happy  to  see  among  us  again  the  dear  brother 
w^ho  has  introduced   me.     We   have  missed  him 
greatly  since  he  left  us  for  his  important  charge  in 


86  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


North  Carolina.  We  have  often  heard  of  him  there, 
and  expect  to  continue  to  hear  good  news  of  him  in  the 
time  to  come.  I  vdsh  to  thank  him  for  his  generous 
words,  and  the  best  thing  I  can  say  about  them  is  that 
they  are  just  like  himself. 

I  must  confess  to  a  sense  of  embarrassment  as  I 
stand  here  to-night,  in  the  presence  of  this  vast  assem- 
bly ;  and  it  does  not  arise  mainly  from  what  you  may 
be  thinking  of  at  this  moment,  that  I  follow  such  a  line 
of  orators  as  those  who  have  just  spoken,  and  that  I 
precede  the  distinguished  gentleman  who  is  the  centre 
of  this  great  occasion.  My  embarrassment  proceeds 
from  neither  of  these  causes,  so  much  as  from  the  fact 
that  I  am  expected  to  tell  in  fifteen  minutes  what  the 
Southern  Presbyterian  Church  thinks  of  Dr.  Hoge.  If 
I  must  condense  I  T\dll  try  and  put  it  all  into  one  sen- 
tence, and  say :  Dr.  Hoge,  the  Southern  Presbyterian 
Church  loves  you  with  its  hundred  thousand  hearts  ;  it 
has  loved  you  long ;  and  love  you  it  always  will. 

My  embarrassment  is  not  so  much  that  I  am  not 
allowed  the  time,  as  because  it  is  not  permitted  to  say 
in  words  what  we  all  feel;  what  you  feel  and  what  I 
feel  for  him.  DeHcacy  forbids  it.  There  are  some 
things  we  can  never  tell,  and  they  are  the  best  things. 
To  express  the  tender  and  sacred  feehngs  of  an  un- 


Address  of  Dr.  Kerr.  87 


broken  and  unchanging  fiienclsliip  in  such  a  way  as  I 
might  without  exceeding  the  simple  truth,  would  not  be 
acceptable  to  a  strong  and  manly  mind  even  in  private, 
far  less  so  before  such  an  assembly  as  this.  After  all, 
there  are  some  things  that  must  be  taken  for  granted, 
and  there  are  depths  of  sentiment  in  the  soul  of  which 
we  may  be  conscious  in  ourselves  and  others,  but  which, 
with  a  true  delicacy,  we  shrink  from  expressing,  and 
which  we  could  not  tell  if  we  tried.  There  are  waters 
too  deep  to  fathom,  and  we  can  only  glance  over  the 
limitless  blue  dome  of  the  sky.  If  we  were  permitted 
to  describe  the  splendid  preaching  of  our  brother,  and 
to  compare  it  T\dth  the  work  of  a  sculptor  who  not  only 
chisels  in  marble  the  finest  statues,  but  is  also  able  by 
a  magic  touch  to  make  them  breathe  and  throb  with 
life  and  love ;  or  if  we  could  indicate  the  studious  hfe 
he  has  lived,  gathering  spoils  from  the  literature  of  all 
ages  that  he  might  bring  them  to  a  pulpit  that  he  has 
illuminated  for  nearly  half  a  century ;  or  to  point  to  his 
great  achievements  in  influencing  the  course  of  affairs 
in  church  and  state ;  all  these  would  not  express  the 
reason  of  our  love.  We  love  him,  not  for  what  he  has 
done  so  much  as  for  what  he  is ;  we  love  him,  because 
he  is  Moses  D.  Hoge! 

If  I  am  to  speak  for  my  brethren,  the  Presbyterian 


88  Commemorative  Services. 


ministers  of  this  city,  what  shall  I  say? — that  Dr.  Hoge, 
by  his  eloquence  and  splendid  diction,  maintained  for 
nearly  half  a  century,  has  made  it  hard  for  us  to  preach, 
not  only  in  his  pulpit,  but  anywhere  within  the  range 
of  his  influence  ?  No ;  not  that,  but  the  opposite,  for 
by  the  incentive  and  training  of  his  example  he  has 
made  it  'easier  for  us  to  preach  the  gospel.  Because 
he  has  disdained  the  tricks  and  cheap  attractions  of  a 
sensational  style,  adhering  to  the  simplicity  of  the 
Scriptures  and  the  attractiveness  of  the  cross,  it  has 
been  easier  for  us  to  tell  the  story  of  redeeming  love. 
He  has  raised  the  standard  of  pnlpit  effort,  and  has 
raised  the  respect  and  influence  of  the  ministry  in  the 
sentiments  of  the  people.  He  has  made  it  easier  for 
us  to  do  our  work,  because  he  has  made  the  name  of 
a  Christian  minister  honorable  in  this  great  common- 
wealth and  far  beyond  it.  More  than  that:  he  has 
made  it  easier  to  be  a  Christian,  easier  for  clergy  and 
laity;  easier  for  those  who  toil  with  the  muscle  or 
brain;  easier  for  the  wealthy  and  learned;  easier  for 
the  humble  poor  to  lead  a  sober,  righteous  and  godly 
life  to  the  glory  of  the  Almighty  name.  He  has  done 
it  by  his  preaching ;  he  has  done  it  by  his  conversa- 
tion ;  he  has  done  it  by  the  life  he  has  lived,  which  has 
been  for  half  a  century  in  the  public  eye  unchallenged 


Address  of  Dr.  Kerr.  89 


and  unrebuked  even  by  the  carping  world ;  a  life  that 
has  added,  so  that  all  can  feel  it,  to  the  momentum  of 
goodness  that  is  moving  mankind  toward  God. 

If  I  am  to  represent  the  Southern  Presbyterian 
Church  to-night — honor  enough  for  a  lifetime — it  sure- 
ly wdll  not  be  amiss  to  say  a  few  words  in  behalf  of  that 
congregation  which  claims  the  credit  of  having  intro- 
duced Dr.  Hoge  to  this  city  and  to  his  great  work  in 
the  Christian  ministry.  It  claims  the  credit  only  of  in- 
troducing him;  once  introduced,  he  needed  nothing 
more.  If  I  was  selected  out  of  all  the  Southern  Pres- 
byterian ministers,  I  surmise  that  it  was  because  I  have 
the  happiness  to  be  the  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  the  church  which  first  called  Dr.  Hoge  to  what 
has  so  long  been  the  city  of  his  love.  In  February, 
1845,  under  the  pastorate  of  the  now  sainted  Dr.  Wm. 
S.  Plumer,  the  gentleman  around  whose  name  gathers 
the  glory  of  this  superb  demonstration  was  called,  a 
young  man  fresh  from  the  seminary,  to  undertake  the 
establishment  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  Theodoric  Pryor,  whose  bow  still  abides  in 
strength,  where,  in  his  county,  he  now  bears  fruit  in  old 
age,  and  preaches  mightily  the  unsearchable  riches  of 
the  gospel  of  Christ,  boasts  that  is  was  he  who,  hap- 
pening to  fill  the  pulpit  on  a  certain  day,  gave  out  a 


90  COMMEMOEATIVE  SERVICES. 


notice  that  on  the  Sunday  following  a  young  minister 
named  Moses  D.  Hoge  would  preach.  He  began  with 
sixty -three  members  from  the  First  Church;  he  now 
has  around  him  one  of  the  noblest  congregations  to  be 
found  in  all  our  borders.  It  has  been  his  only  charge, 
and  he  its  only  pastor.  AVith  the  unique  and  beautiful 
history  of  this  pastorate  you  are  all  more  or  less  ac- 
quainted. I  have  only  this  to  say  in  behalf  of  the  old 
mother  church,  that  she  is  proud  of  her  daughter  and 
proud  of  her  illustrious  spouse. 

I  do  not  consider  that,  in  standing  for  the  Southern 
Presbyterian  Church  to-night  I  am  in  her  name  to  con- 
fer a  distinction  on  Dr.  Hoge.  There  are  none  left  that 
she  has  not  already  given  him.  For  twenty-five  years 
there  has  hardly  been  a  vacant  pulpit  of  importance,  a 
professorship  or  presidency  in  college  or  university, 
which  had  not  been  his  if  he  wished  it.  We  have  been 
glad  to  have  him  preside  as  moderator,  in  the  succession 
with  Thornwell,  Palmer,  Robinson  and  Dabney.  He 
has  been  our  agent  in  many  most  delicate  and  difficult 
negotiations  with  other  denominations.  We  have  sent 
him  more  than  once  to  the  World's  Alliance  of  Presby- 
terian Churches  and  to  the  conferences  of  the  Evangel- 
ical Alliance  of  all  the  Christians.  He  is  known  every- 
where.    In  attempting  on  one  occasion,  in  the  city  of 


Address  of  Dr.  Kerr.  91 


Florence,  to  converse  with  an  Italian  minister,  before 
an  interpreter  came  to  our  assistance,  the  only  word 
of  all  my  friend's  talk  I  could  understand  was  "  Dr. 
Hoge,  Dr.  Hoge." 

We  have  been  proud  to  have  him  represent  us  in 
Chicago,  Philadelphia,  New  York,  Boston,  London, 
Berhn,  in  the  Orient,  in  Egypt,  and  in  the  land  of  the 
Son  of  man.  If  there  is  an}i;hing  the  Southern  Pres- 
byterian Church  has  not  offered  Dr.  Hoge  in  the  way 
of  confidence  and  honor,  I  do  not  know  what  it  is,  and 
I  do  not  stand  here  to  add  a  single  honor  to  those  she 
has  la\dshed  upon  him,  but  simply  to  say,  Favored  son 
of  a  noble  church,  your  mother  is  proud  of  you.  If  I 
should  gather  up  all  the  laurels  of  forty-five  years,  and 
twine  them  into  a  wreath,  it  would  be  too  heavy  for  me 
to  lift  and  place  it  upon  his  brow,  though  he  would  be 
strong  enough  to  bear  it. 

In  the  name  of  the  Southern  Presbyterian  Church, 
in  the  midst  of  this  magnificent  scene,  my  honored 
brother,  I  salute  you.  All  hail!  noble  son  of  a  noble 
mother!     AU  haH !     Thank  God!     Godspeed! 

And  now  let  the  mighty  impulse  of  this  one  feeling: 
which  fills  aU  hearts  rise  in  prayer  to  God,  that  this 
star  may  long  shine  in  our  earthly  skies.  It  shall 
never  go  down ;  it  shall  at  last  ascend  to  ghsten  in  a. 


92  Commemorative  Services. 


purer  firmament,  and  come  to  rest  beside  the  eternal 
throne.  Let  us  pray  that  it  long  may  linger  here,  and 
shine  as  bright  as  it  does  to-night ;  and  when  we  make 
this  prayer  let  the  people  say,  Amen !  Amen ! 


-7'  ^ 


I^espopse  by  Dr.  |^0(^e. 


When  Dr.  Kerr  had  concluded,  all  eyes  were  turned  to- 
ward Dr.  Hoge,  who  quietly  arose  from  his  seat  on  one  cor- 
ner of  the  stage  and  walked  to  the  side  of  the  table  arranged 
for  the  speakers.  When  the  applause  which  saluted  him 
ceased,  he  spoke  as  follows: 

^T  is  difficult  to  find  words  in  which  to  express  the 
Jj_  commingled  emotions  awakened  by  this  anniver- 
sary. 

First  of  all,  I  trust  my  most  fervent  feeling  is  grati- 
tude to  God  for  sparing  me  to  this  hour ;  gratitude  for 
permitting  me  to  serve  him  so  long  in  the  ministry  of 
the  gospel ;  gratitude  for  the  unbroken  harmony  which 
has  existed  between  my  people  and  myself,  and  for  the 
unity  and  peace  which  have  made  their  relations  to 
each  other  so  delightful.  The  blessings  and  the  ben- 
efits which  result  from  such  concord  have  been  so  hap- 
pily portrayed  in  the  different  addresses  of  the  evening 
that  we  have  had  a  fi'esh  and  inspiriting  impression  of 
the  beauty  of  the  psalm  whose  opening  w^ords  always 


94  COMMEMOEATIVE  SERVICES. 


fall  like  music  on  the  ear  of  the  listening  heart,  "Be- 
hold, how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is  for  brethren  to 
dwell  together  in  nnity." 

Next  I  hasten  to  acknowledge  the  generous  greet- 
ing given  me  at  the  very  commencement  of  these  exer- 
cises by  one  whose  high  official  position  and  personal 
worth  make  any  expression  of  regard  from  such  a 
source  dear  to  me — one  who  comes  from  my  native 
county,  who  represents  my  college,  and,  better  still, 
who  represents  this  noble  commonwealth — borne,  as  he 
was,  into  office  on  the  tide  of  an  overwhelming  popular 
vote — one  who  was  the  friend  of  my  youth,  as  he  has 
been  during  all  the  succeeding  years,  his  Excellency 
Governor  Philip  Watkins  McKinney. 

Next,  I  desire  most  affectionately  to  reciprocate  the 
assurances  of  regard  and  confidence  expressed  in  the 
resolutions  of  the  Presbyterian  Pastors'  Association, 
made  all  the  more  welcome  to  me  because  drafted  by 
the  brother  in  charge  of  the  church  which  was  a  colony 
from  my  own,  and  read  to  this  audience  by  my  col- 
league at  the  Old  Market  Hall,  who  is  now  conducting 
that  enterprise  with  signal  success. 

And  what  response  can  I  make  to  the  cordial  and 
loving  words  spoken  by  my  revered  and  honored 
brethren  who  have  come  from  their  near  or  distant 


Kesponse  by  Dr.  Hoge.  95 


homes  to  honor  this  occasion  with  their  presence,  and 
to  lay  me  under  obligations  I  can  never  repay  or  ex- 
press, so  moved  am  I  by  their  generous  approval  ? 

Wfx^  Cottst^gatfons  that  f\un^  ^on^  B^lot^* 

It  might  be  supposed  that  such  addresses  as  we 
have  heard  to-night,  replete  with  commendation  and 
encouragement,  would  fill  my  heart  only  with  emotions 
exultant  and  joyous ;  but  who  does  not  know  that  in 
the  midst  of  scenes  fullest  of  gladness  there  often  inter- 
mingles Tvdth  the  joy  a  strange  sadness,  hke  a  solemn 
refi'ain  running  through  a  jubilant  song? 

When  I  remember  that  of  the  sixty-three  members 
composing  the  church  with  which  I  commenced  my 
ministry  but  two  are  with  us  to-night ;  when  I  remem- 
ber that  those  to  whom  I  have  preached  since  that 
year,  now  numbered  with  the  departed,  would  form  a 
larger  congregation  than  this  vast  assembly;  when  I 
recall  to  mind  the  fact  that  it  was  my  office  to  direct 
the  religious  thought,  to  shape  the  Christian  principles, 
and  to  develop  the  spiritual  life  of  that  great  multitude, 
the  remembrance  of  the  imperfect  manner  in  which  I 
discharged  that  solemn  trust,  and  the  conviction  that  I 
might  have  been  far  more  helpful  to  those  who  are  now 
beyond  the  reach  of  earthly  influence  had  I  preached 


96  Commemorative  Seetices. 


more  faithfully,  more  tenderly,  more  lovingly,  admon- 
ishes me  that,  if  this  is  an  hour  for  joy,  it  is  also  an  hour 
for  penitence  and  tears. 

SEucouta^^ntent  to  M^va  ^tltg^nc^* 

So,  too,  while  listening  to  the  kind  words  which 
have  been  spoken  with  regard  to  my  life  and  labors,  I 
have  been  conscious  that  they  were  descriptive  rather 
of  what  I  ought  to  have  been  and  might  have  been ; 
and  none  can  better  understand  and  appreciate  my 
meaning  than  these  very  brethren  when  I  say  that  I 
am  more  humbled  than  elated  by  their  unmerited  com- 
mendation, and  that  the  best  use  I  can  now  make  of 
their  approval  is  to  derive  from  it  a  stimulus  hereafter 
to  follow  mth  more  affectionate  fidelity  in  the  footsteps 
of  my  Lord,  and  to  serve  the  people  to  whom  I  minis- 
ter with  new  diligence  and  devotion. 

In  this  I  am  encouraged  by  the  conviction  that, 
with  whatever  conscientious  study  and  honest  work  I 
can  prosecute  my  coming  labor,  I  shall  be  sustained  in 
the  future,  as  I  have  been  in  the  past,  by  the  coopera- 
tion of  the  earnest  men  and  noble  women  of  my  charge. 

No  pastor  was  ever  blessed  with  a  more  loyal  church ; 
and  so  far  as  its  enterprises  have  been  successful  the 


Eesponse  by  Dr.  Hoge.  97 


result  has  been  mainly  due  to  the  ready  sympathy  and 
persistent  activity  of  its  members ;  and  I  avail  myself 
of  this  great  opportunity  of  bearing  this  pubHc  testi- 
mony to  the  loving  fidehty  and  consecrated  devotion  of 
my  people — a  fideUty,  a  devotion  that  has  never  fal- 
tered or  wavered,  but  has  been  as  undeviatingly  fixed 
and  true  as  the  pointers  of  the  splendid  constellation 
that  to-night  with  fingers  of  radiant  light  and  beauty 
point  steadily  to  the  pole. 

But  no  church,  however  organized  and  equipped, 
if  isolated  from  its  sister  churches,  or  if  antagonistic 
to  them,  can  accomplish  any  widespread  and  perma- 
nent good  in  the  community. 

CS^ood  TOUl  of  nil  denominations. 

And  here,  too,  I  find  another  element  and  explana- 
tion of  whatever  of  service  my  church  has  rendered  to 
the  material,  the  intellectual,  and  the  spiritual  welfare 
of  the  public. 

It  has  had  the  good  will  of  all  denominations — 
most  notably  and  unmistakably  their  kindest  regards. 

And  this  leads  me  to  ask,  in  conclusion,  what  is  the 
real  meaning  and  true  significance  of  this  splendid 
throng  in  the  Academy  of  Music  to-night? 

It  is  not  to  make  one  man  the  object  of  temporary 
7 


98  Commemorative  Services. 


attention ;  it  is  not  to  honor  a  particular  chnrcli ;  it  is 
to  illustrate  the  beauty  of  Christian  charity,  the  happi- 
ness which  comes  from  Christian  concord. 

If  there  is  anything  more  characteristic  than  another 
of  the  times  we  live  in,  it  is  the  fact,  that  while  there 
was  never  more  denominational  zeal  and  activity  than 
now,  associated  with  it  there  is  a  determination  to  bring 
to  the  front  the  real  unity  which  binds  all  the  branches 
of  the  Christian  family  together  in  one  harmonious  and 
happy  brotherhood.  There  is  an  uprising  and  advanc- 
ing tidal  wave  of  gospel  charity,  which,  I  trust,  will 
continue  to  rise  and  flow  until  it  sweeps  away  all  the 
bigotry,  the  intolerance,  and  the  exclusiveness  which 
have  so  long  deformed  and  degraded  Christendom. 

In  no  city  in  our  land  is  there  a  more  kindly  feel- 
ing among  the  different  denominations  than  in  Eich- 
mond.  It  had  an  early  manifestation  among  the  pas- 
tors who  labored  together  in  harmony  until  they  went 
up  to  renew  their  intercourse  in  the  world  of  love. 
Their  spirit  has  descended  to  our  day,  and  so  prevails 
among  us  that  were  a  minister  of  any  denomination  to 
proclaim  arrogant  and  intolerant  claims  in  behalf  of 
his  own  church,  there  is  a  pubUc  sentiment  in  this 


Eesponse  by  Dr.  Hoge.  99 


community  that  would  put  him  down  and  shut  him 
up. 

The  pastors  'most  beloved  and  honored  in  Kich- 
mond  have  always  been  those  who  have  cultivated  and 
manifested  most  largely  the  grace  of  charity.  The 
most  really  prosperous  churches  have  been  those  whose 
motto  has  been,  "  Let  brotherly  love  continue." 

We  have  a  delightful  illustration  of  the  unity  of 
feeling  which  pervades  our  churches  before  our  eyes  at 
this  moment,  in  the  sympathy  and  interest  manifested 
in  the  exercises  of  this  very  hour.  This  is  neither  a 
Methodist,  Baptist,  Episcopal,  nor  Presbyterian  audi- 
ence. 

What  is  it  ? 

It  is  a  fraternal  gathering  of  Christian  brethren  ^ 
met  to  honor,  encourage,  and  love  each  other ;  met  ta 
be  reminded  that  the  truths  common  to  all  the  churches 
are  the  most  important  and  precious  of  all  the  truths ; 
met  that  we  may  in  union  kindle  our  hopes  afresh  as 
we  together  look  to  the  same  dear  cross  shining  above 
us  in  its  immeasurable  glory,  and  that  with  united 
hands  and  hearts  we  may  together  press  on  to  the  land 
we  love  and  ar^  looking  for,  assured  that  it  is  not  a  cold 


100  Commemorative  Services. 


assent  to  an  article  in  the  creed,  but  the  warm  expres- 
sion of  a  thrilling  experience  which  constrains  us  with 
one  voice  and  heart  to  exclaim,  "  I  believe  in  the  com- 
munion or  SAINTS." 

To  you,  my  dear  and  honored  brethren,  whose  ad- 
dresses have  contributed  so  much  to  the  pleasure  and 
profit  of  this  commemoration  service,  I  beg  leave  to 
tender  the  united  thanks  of  the  officers  and  members 
of  the  church  I  represent.  Your  coming  has  been 
hailed  with  joy;  your  departure  T\dll  cause  us  grief. 
But  those  who  love  the  Lord  never  part  for  the  last 
time.  They  may  so  part  on  earth,  but  they  will  meet 
again  in  the  world  of  recognition  and  communion  in 
the  glory  everlasting ;  and  these  sweet  Christian  friend- 
ships formed  on  earth  and  cemented  by  the  blood  of 
Christ  will  not  perish  by  the  stroke  of  death,  but  vnR 
have  a  resurrection  beyond  the  grave,  and  will  spring 
up  and  flourish  beautiful  and  immortal  in  the  paradise 
of  God ! 

To  you,  my  friends  of  all  denominations,  who  have 
shown  such  an  interest  in  this  commemoration  from 
the  time  it  was  first  proposed,  whose  presence  here  to- 
night and  whose  evident  sympathy  in  these  exercises 


Kesponse  by  Dr.  Hoge.  101 


have  added  so  much  to  the  happiness  of  the  occasion, 
to  you  I  shall  ever  be  grateful,  and  to  the  God  who  has 
put  it  into  your  hearts  to  show  me  kindness  in  so  many 
ways  and  for  so  many  years. 

Were  the  house  I  live  in  as  large  as  my  desire  to 
entertain  the  friends  to  whom  I  speak  to-night,  I  would 
gladly  invite  you  there. 

But  there  will  be  room  enough  in  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church,  where,  at  the  conclusion  of  these 
services,  you  will  find  a  warm  welcome,  and  a  banquet 
prepared  by  the  ladies,  to  which  all  are  most  cordially 
invited. 


Kev.  Mr.  Turnbull  then  said  :  "  After  the  singing  of 
the  psalm  at  the  close  of  this  programme,  these  interest- 
ing exercises  will  be  brought  to  a  close  by  the  benedic- 
tion, which  will  be  pronounced  by  the  Eev.  Dr.  H.  H. 
Hawes,  of  Staunton,  Va.,  one  of  the  many  ministers  who, 
under  Dr.  Hoge's  faithful  ministry,  have  gone  out  from 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church. 

After  Dr.  Hawes  pronounced  the  benediction  the 
audience  repaired  to  the  church. 


©HE   I^EGBPIPION, 


The  following  account  of  the  reception  is  taken  from  the 
Hichmond  Dispatch  of  the  28th  of  February : 

Briundr^ds  3^5*3  X\\tix  Hespects  to  tlte  B^Ion^i 

fMMEDIATELY  after  the  exercises  at  the  Academy 
Dr.  Hoge  and  hiS' family  and  guests  from  a  distance 
drove  to  the  church.  As  they  entered,  the  organ,  un- 
der Professor  N.  Bowditch  Clapp,  pealed  forth  the 
notes  of  a  brilliant  prelude,  and  the  musical  programme 
was  begun.  After  the  singing  of  the  anthem  "  O  Sing 
unto  the  Lord,"  which  was  beautifully  rendered  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harvey  Blair,  Mrs.  Knowles,  Mrs.  Buch, 
and  Mr.  Frank  Cunningham,  Dr.  Hoge  and  his  family 
and  guests  w^ere  escorted  to  the  lecture-room,  where  an 
elaborate  supper  was  served  very  handsomely  to  them 
pre^dous  to  the  reception,  which  it  was  known  would 
consume  considerable  time.  During  this  time  the 
crowded  church  was  delightfully  entertained  by  an 
elaborate  sacred  concert  under  the  direction  of  the  ac- 


The  Eeception.  103 

compKslied  organist,  and  rendered  by  many  fine  voices 
from  other  church  choirs  : 

1.  Oegan  Solo,  "Preludes," Listz. 

Pkof.  N.  Bowditch  Clapp. 

2.  Anthem,  "O  Sing  Unto  the  Lord, 

Mb.  and  Mks.  Hakyey  Blaik,  Mrs.  Knowles,  Mks.  Buch, 
AND  Mk.  Feank  Cunningham. 

3.  SoPEANo  Solo, 

Mes.  Oilman  with  'Cello  Obligato  by  Pkof.  Thilow. 

4.  Tenoe  Solo,  ' '  If  with  All  Your  Heart, "  etc Mendelssohn. 

Me.  Thomas  Dabney. 

5.  Quaeteite,  "  Spirit  of  Holiness, " 

By  the  Choie  of  the  Fiest  Peesbyteeian  Chuech. 

6.  SoPEANo  Solo,  "Noel," Adam. 

Miss  Zeta  Heeold. 

7.  Tenoe  Solo,  with  'Cello  Obligato, 

Me.  ELemplin. 

8.  Oegan  Solo,  "Allegro," Korner. 

Me.  Aubeey  Young. 

9.  Bass  Solo, 

Me.  Lohman. 

10.  SoPEANO  Solo,  with  'Cello  Obligato, 

Miss  Julia  Kelly. 

11.  Tenoe  Solo, 

Me.  Feank  W.  Cunningham. 

12.  Quaetette,  "  When  Gathering  Clouds, " Hatton. 

Choie  of  Fiest  Peesbyteeian  Chuech. 

Postlude,  "Lefevebre," Wily, 

Mb.  Shepheed  Webb. 


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The  immense  throng  of  friends  from  the  church 
were  invited  into  the  lecture-room  three  hundred  at  a 
time,  and  were  there  cordially  received  by  Dr.  Hoge  as 
he  stood  vnth.  genial  smiles  surrounded  by  his  children 
and  grandchildren,  his  visiting  friends,  and  the  Com- 
mittee of  Reception. 

The  decorations  of  the  lecture-room  were  beautiful, 
tasteful,  and  elegant.  The  colors  were  crimson  and 
gold,  and  over  each  window,  shaded  by  crimson  cur- 
tains, was  a  fretwork  of  bronze  centred  by  a  mirror 
placque.  The  centre  of  the  east  side,  where  the  recep- 
tion took  place,  had  a  background  of  crimson,  with  a 
small  chandelier  on  either  side.  Magnificent  palms 
grouped  on  the  sides  below  made  a  frame  for  a  large 
mirror  set  in  bronze,  above  which  were  the  dates  of 
the  installment  of  the  beloved  pastor  and  the  present 
year — 1845  and  1890 — in  golden  wimortelles.  Oppo- 
site this  point  was  another  mirror,  embowered  in  bloom- 
ing plants  and  ferns  and  tastefully  overhung  with  em- 
broidered tapestry. 

The  north  end  of  the  room  had  for  its  adornment 
the  magnificent  portrait  of  Dr.  Hoge,  draped  in  crim- 


The  Keception.  105 


son  and  gold  silk  scarfs,  which  was  on  this  occasion 
presented  by  the  gentlemen  of  the  congi^egation  to  the 
church,  and  was,  next  to  the  original,  the  greatest  ob- 
ject of  interest.  Another  portrait  of  interest  was  that 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Davies,  who  was  the  second 
president  of  Princeton  College  (in  1761),  very  kindly 
loaned  by  Mrs.  Dr.  Samuel  Drewry.  He  is  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Samuel  Drewry,  and  his  family 
Bible  is  still  in  the  possession  of  his  great-grandson^ 
Mr.  WiUiam  H.  Davies. 

The  ladies  in  charge  of  these  artistic  decorations 
were  Mrs.  G.  W.  Watt  and  Mrs.  Manfred  Call,  and  they 
deserve  great  credit  for  their  taste  and  skill  in  design- 
ing, as  well  as  industry  in  executing  the  plan. 

The  south  end  was  arranged  for  the  general  supper, 
which,  in  spite  of  the  great  number  served,  was  dehght- 
ful,  comfortable,  and  abundant,  comprising  bouillon, 
oysters,  salads,  croquettes,  ices,  cakes,  fruits,  coffee, 
and  chocolate. 

The  officers  in  charge  of  the  supper  were :  Mrs.  Dr. 
Withers,  Mrs.  W.  J.  Blunt,  and  Mrs.  Le^vis  Burwell>. 
who  were  fortunate  in  the  selection  of  a  large  and  effi- 
cient committee,  who  worked  mth  pleasure  and  success. 
Each  lady  on  this  committee  wore  a  knot  of  yellow  rib- 
bon as  badges. 


106  Commemorative  Services. 


®n  Hogc  and  Hts  C^tt^sts. 

The  table  specially  arranged  for  the  entertainment 
of  Dr.  Hoge  and  his  guests  was  very  tasteful,  with 
beautiful  adornments.  The  centre  was  an  arrangement 
of  jonquils  and  violets,  more  beautiful  because  sent  in 
comphment  to  Dr.  Hoge  by  the  florist;  at  the  place 
assigned  to  each  lady  was  a  bouquet  of  heliotrope  and 
jonquils  tied  with  profuse  bows  of  purple  and  gold  rib- 
bons. Purple  candles  under  yellow  shades  filled  crys- 
tal candelabra  on  reflectors,  making  a  very  handsome 
^and  unique  ornamentation,  and  the  memi  was  very 
complete. 

Those  imdted  to  seats  at  this  table  were  Eev.  Dr. 
John  Hall,  Governor  and  Mrs.  Philip  McKinney,  Bishop 
Alfred  M.  Kandolph,  Bishop  Alpheus  Wilson,  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  L.  M.  Curry,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  E.  P.  Kerr,  Eev.  J. 
Calvin  Stewart,  Dr.  H.  C.  Alexander,  Colonel  Eichard 
Lathers,  Mr.  G.  M.  Atwater,  Eev.  and  Mrs.  P.  H.  Hoge, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marshall  M.  Gilliam,  Miss  Bessie  Hoge. 

Crystal  chandeliers,  gold  silk  hangings,  shaded 
lamps,  plants  and  flowers  massing  every  corner  and 
available  spot,  Turkish  rugs,  pictures  and  ornaments 
and  pretty  tables  for  chocolate  and  coffee,  adorned  in 
olive  and  white,  blue  and  pink,  presided  over  by  at- 
tractive young  ladies,  all  made  the  scene  brilliant  and 


The  Keception.  107 


attractive  and  one  long  to  be  treasured  and  remem- 
bered by  the  friends  of  the  beloved  pastor,  who  has  for 
nearly  half  a  century  labored  in  this  community ;  and 
every  denomination  and  sect  was  represented  in  the 
vast  assemblage. 

The  coffee-table,  where  Mrs.  Allan  Donnan  held 
sway,  was  served  by  Misses  Mary  Cameron,  Mary 
Young,  Emma  Carrington,  Roy  Ellerson,  Bessie  Call, 
Nellie  Perrin,  Marion  Harris,  and  Kate  Harris. 

The  next,  chaperoned  by  Mrs.  Percy  Montague,  had 
Misses  Fortune  Scott,  Nannie  Scott,  Annie  Armstead, 
Mary  Chalmers,  Janie  Grigg,  Evelyn  Paine,  and  Minnie 
Wilkinson. 

Mrs.  A.  Emmons's  chocolate-table  was  served  by 
Misses  EHse  Coke,  JuHa  Morton,  Kate  Wallace,  Alice 
Burwell,  Nellie  Atkins,  Bland  Clarke,  Ellen  Clarke, 
LiUie  Cannon,  Annie  Staples  and  Lucy  Williams. 

A  few  of  his  lady  parishioners  presented  him  with 
a  costly  and  elegant  watch,  and  others  attested  their 
affectionate  interest  by  presents  of  handsome  vessels  of 
silver  and  other  things  of  value  and  use,  and  the  labor 
of  loving  hearts  and  hands  brought  their  best  efforts 
and  gave  them  Tvdth  tears  of  grateful  affection  to  him 


108  Commemorative  Services. 


who  has  baptized,  married,  comforted,  and  buried  chil- 
dren, parents  and  grandparents  in  his  flock  through 
succeeding  generations. 

^n  ^ntit^  Success* 

Every  detail  of  the  entertainment  reflected  credit 
upon  the  energy  and  skill  of  those  ha^dng  it  in  charge, 
and  hearts,  purses,  and  hands  were  opened  in  willing 
and  voluntary  service  to  make  the  celebration  worthy 
of  the  occasion. 

The  gentlemen  who  acted  as  ushers  were  most 
obliging  and  poHte,  considerate  ahke  of  the  comfort 
and  pleasure  of  their  guests.  The  music  was  dehght- 
ful,  and  though  so  many  contributed  to  the  success  of 
the  musical  programme  that  it  seems  unfair  to  mention 
one  and  not  all,  we  believe  the  musicians  themselves 
will  with  pleasure  accord  the  palm  to  the  sweet  fresh 
soprano  who  gave  her  "maiden  effort,"  to  mark  this 
occasion  as  it  were  with  a  white  stone. 

There  was  never  in  this  community  a  more  genuine 
nor  Hberal  outpouring  of  affectionate  regard  than  has 
been  exhibited  toward  this  friend  of  many,  whom  all 
unite  in  wishing  many  years  more  of  health  and  peace 
and  usefulness. 


PRESS  COMMENTS. 


The  State  of  the  28th  of  February  had  the  following 
notice  of  the  celebration  : 

Intetesttng  Hotes  nbout  t\\^  Cclebrntton* 

rl.  DK.  HOGE  was  not  at  aU  fatigued  after  the 
exercises  last  night,  though  they  naturally  sub- 
jected him  to  a  great  nervous  strain.  He  retired  at 
two  o'clock  and  rose  this  morning  at  his  usual  hour. 
Visitors  at  his  house  to-day  found  him  in  fine  health 
and  spirits. 

The  celebration  made  a  big  stir  in  Richmond,  and 
everybody  is  talking  about  it  to-day. 

Among  the  guests  from  a  distance  were  Col.  Richard 
Lathers,  whose  winter  residence  is  at  New  Rochelle, 
near  the  city  of  New  York,  and  whose  summer  resi- 
dence is  among  the  Berkshire  hills  of  Massachusetts ; 
Mr.  George  M.  Atwater  and  Mrs.  Atwater,  of  Rock 
Rimmon,  near  Springfield,  Massachusetts ;  Mr.  Philip 
Diacont  and  daughter,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island ; 
and  Professor  Holmes,  of  the  University  of  Virginia. 


110  COMMEMOEATIVE  SERVICES. 


Col.  Lathers,  who  is  a  pubHc  man  in  New  York, 
thought  that,  for  high  intellectual  tone  and  ability,  the 
oratory  was  unsurpassed.  All  of  the  visitors  were  im- 
pressed with  the  magnitude  and  complete  success  of 
the  undertaking. 

Rev.  Dr.  John  Hall,  of  New  York,  left  for  home 
early  this  morning,  but  before  going  he  expressed  his 
opinion  that  such  a  gathering  as  that  at  the  Academy 
last  night  could  not  be  seen  anywhere  in  this  country 
outside  of  Richmond. 

Among  the  gentlemen  on  the  stage,  besides  the  Gov- 
ernor, Lieutenant-Governor  and  the  orators,  were  Mayor 
Ellyson,  the  venerable  Dr.  Peterkin,  Rev.  Mr.  Carmi- 
chael.  Rabbi  Harris,  of  the  Eleventh-street  Synagogue, 
and  Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner.  It  is  generally  agreed 
that  one  of  the  most  graceful  things  in  Dr.  Hoge's  very 
graceful  address  was  his  allusion  and  welcome  to  the 
Hebrews — "  Our  ancient  brethren  of  the  covenant." 
Dr.  Hoge's  splendid  tribute  to  the  press  of  Richmond 
was  warmly  applauded. 

The  entire  celebration,  both  the  formal  exercises  at 
the  Academy  and  the  reception,  miisicale  and  supper 
at  the  church,  passed  off  without  a  hitch. 

Dr.  Hoge  is  reading  the  stacks  of  letters  he  received 
as  he  finds  leisure.      These  congratulations  have  come^ 


Press  Comments.  Ill 


from  every  part  of  the  United  States,  and  fi'om  beyond 
sea. 


The   following   are   from   editorials  in  the   Eichmond 
2\mes : 

Wtittx.  Br.  Moses  ©>  Hoge. 

IT  has  become  too  much  the  custom  of  the  present 
day  to  wait  until  death  has  put  an  end  to  the  in- 
spired careers  of  those  who  have  devoted  their  thoughts 
and  energies  exclusively  to  the  moral  elevation  of  the 
communities  to  which  they  belong,  and  with  the  most 
eminent  success,  before  the  appreciation  takes  shape  in 
those  celebrations  which  seem  to  be  the  only  appropriate 
expression  of  gratitude  for  such  noble  services  in  the 
cause  of  God  and  mankind.  This  is  to  be  regretted,  for 
not  only  are  such  celebrations  a  just  tribute  to  holy  and 
philanthropic  lives  that  have  shone  like  a  lamp  in  the 
darkness,  but  they  also  stimulate  individuals  to  rise  to 
higher  purposes  and  purer  motives,  and  have  a  far- 
reaching  influence  for  good  in  the  community  at  large. 
Public  ceremonies  of  this  general  kind  were  held 
last  night  in  honor  of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
Eev.  Dr.  Hoge's  pastorate  of  the  Second  Presb}i:erian 
Church,  and  they  were  of  the  most  beautiful  and  im- 


112  Commemorative  Services. 


pressive  character.  There  is  no  man  in  this  city  whose 
career,  both  in  the  sacred  and  civic  walks  of  hfe,  has 
shed  abroad  a  more  beneficent  light  or  exercised  a  more 
exalted  influence  than  that  of  Dr.  Hoge.  A  man  of 
God,  indefatigable  in  the  holy  cause  of  Christ  on  earth, 
which  is  the  cause  of  all  that  is  pure  and  lofty,  a  moral 
teacher  of  surpassing  wealth  of  thought,  tenderness  of 
feeling,  and  clearness  and  vigor  of  expression,  a  scholar 
of  the  most  discriminating  culture  and  the  most  versa- 
tile learning,  a  patriot  whose  whole  spirit  is  responsive 
to  the  most  ardent  love  of  country,  and  a  citizen  who 
has  set  the  noblest  example  both  in  his  public  and 
private  Hfe  ;  such  is  the  eminent  divine  about  whom  so 
many  gathered  last  night  to  express  for  this  whole  com- 
munity the  sentiments  of  respect,  admiration,  reverence 
and  gratitude  in  which  he  is  held. 

Who  can  accurately  estimate  the  good  which  this 
great  man  has  performed  in  so  long  a  course  of  time 
as  a  pastorate  of  forty-five  years,  a  period  exceeding 
the  length  of  the  average  life  ?  During  this  period  Dr. 
Hoge  has  been  continuously  at  work  in  this  community, 
and  his  fame  has  extended  not  only  to  the  farthest  con- 
fines of  the  Union,  but  even  to  foreign  countries.  His 
eloquent  words  have  been  heard,  and  his  rehgious  teach- 
ings received,  in  many  lands,  and  wherever  he  has  gone 


Press  Comments.  113 


the  personal  power  that  has  so  long  been  one  of  the 
controlling  elements  in  the  general  affairs  of  this  com- 
munity, has  been  fully  recognized  and  unreservedly 
acknowledged.  Kichmond  may  well  cherish  such  a 
lofty  moral  exemplar,  such  an  illustrious  reHgious 
teacher,  such  a  high-minded  citizen,  as  among  the 
most  precious  of  the  many  magnificent  gifts  ^vdth  which 
a  kind  Providence  has  endowed  her.  May  his  familiar 
form  be  long  seen  upon  our  streets,  and  may  the  mov- 
ing tones  of  his  eloquent  voice  be  heard  for  many  years 
to  come  in  that  pulpit  which  has  been  a  fountain  head 
of  everything  that  can  elevate  and  improve  men,  both 
in  a  reUgious  and  a  ci^dc  sense.  The  Times  extends  to 
him  its  heaii:iest  congratulations,  and  wishes  for  him, 
with  the  warmest  sincerity,  every  blessing  which  earth 
can  afford. 

Christian  unity  was  an  idea  clearly  accentuated  by 
the  gathering  last  week  to  do  honor  to  the  life  and  ser- 
vices of  that  faithful  preacher  of  the  gospel  of  peace, 
the  Kev.  Dr.  Moses  D.  Hoge. 

Speakers  representative  of  many  chiu'ch  bodies  paid 
their  glowing  tributes  before  an  audience  which  forgot 
for  the  time  that  there  were  such  things  as  apostolic 
8 


114  COMMEMOEATIYE  SERVICES. 


succession,  a  proposed  revision  of  the  Westminster 
Standards,  infant  baptism  or  adult  immersion,  predes- 
tination and  election,  or  close  communion. 

To  the  thoughtful  mind  came  naturally  the  thought, 
why  cannot  the  churches  enjoy  at  all  times  the  living 
together  as  brethren  exemphfied  here?  Why  cannot 
a  Lutheran  congregation,  for  instance,  listen  to  the  elo- 
quence of  a  Hoge  or  a  Hall  at  its  regular  service ;  why 
cannot  a  Wilson  or  a  Kerr  fill  a  Protestant  Episcopal 
pulpit,  or  a  Eandolph  minister  to  a  Presbyterian  body  ? 

While  other  speakers  touched  upon  this  subject,  the 
greatest  stress,  perhaps,  was  laid  upon  it  by  Bishop 
Eandolph  and  the  Eev.  Dr.  Hoge.  The  former's  words 
should  be  printed  in  golden  letters  and  sent  with  every 
overture  made  by  one  church  to  another  for  closer 
union. 

Alluding  to  the  afternoon  services  at  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  he  said:  "Perhaps  they  have 
helped  to  put  your  city  in  the  advance  ranks  of  that 
great  movement  throughout  Christendom  for  Christian 
unity.  The  tide  is  moving  and  rising  along  the  hnes 
of  all  the  churches  in  Christendom.  The  day  is  com- 
ing when  jealousies  between  churches  and  rivalries  be- 
tween preachers,  and  the  sharp  tongues  of  sectarian 
exclusiveness  will  be  numbered  among  the  things  of 


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the  past.  It  will  come — it  is  coming — not  by  the 
obliteration  of  what  you  call  denominational  differences ; 
not  by  all  churches  consenting  to  merge  themselves  into 
one  organization  and  subscribe  to  one  confession  of 
faith ;  not  when  Christendom  with  its  miUion  of  churches 
will  repeat  the  same  prayers  and  worship  through  the 
same  litanies :  that  would  be  unity  of  sameness, — the 
unity  of  sands  upon  the  seashore,  all  alike,  yet  sepa- 
rate, with  no  living  form  between  them — a  dead  unity. 
This  unity  that  is  coming  will  be  like  the  unity  of  na- 
ture— one  spirit  under  diversity  of  form,  one  Lord,  one 
faith,  one  baptism,  one  God  and  Father  of  all.  How 
far  ahead  of  his  time  Paul  was!  He  finds  the  Corin- 
thians divided  in  parties.  The  watchword  of  one  party 
is,  I  am  of  Paul ;  the  watchword  of  another,  I  am  of 
ApoUos;  another,  I  am  of  Cephas.  He  asks.  Was 
Paul  crucified  for  you  ?  He  tells  them  that  the  minis- 
try is  your  servant  for  Jesus'  sake.  All  ministers  with 
their  varied  gifts  belong,  not  to  themselves,  but  to  you- 
All  things  are  yours.  The  faith  and  science  of  Cephas, 
the  eloquence  of  Apollos,  the  logic  of  Paul — all  are 
yours.  The  ministers  of  all  the  churches  of  this  city 
belong  to  each  and  every  one  of  you  Christian  people. 
Dr.  Hoge,  your  own  minister  and  preacher,  belongs  to 
me  as  well  as  you,  and  the  varied  gifts  of  every  other 


116  Commemorative  Services. 


minister  of  this  city  belong  to  us  all ;  they  are  all  your 
servants  for  Jesus'  sake." 

To  these  must  be  added  those  of  Dr.  Hoge,  that 
"  no  church,  however  organized  and  equipped,  if  isolated 
from  its  sister  churches,  and  much  less  if  antagonistic 
to  them,  can  accomplish  any  widespread  and  permanent 
good  in  a  community;  and  if  there  is  anything  more 
characteristic  than  another  of  the  times  we  live  in,  it  is 
the  fact  that  while  there  never  was  more  denominational 
zeal  and  activity  than  now,  associated  with  it  there  is  a 
determination  to  bring  to  the  front  the  real  unity  which 
binds  all  the  branches  of  the  Christian  family  together 
in  one  harmonious  and  happy  brotherhood.  There  is 
an  uprising  and  advancing  tidal  wave  of  gospel  charity, 
which,  I  trust,  vnH  continue  to  rise  and  swell  until  it 
sweeps  away  all  the  bigotry,  the  intolerance,  and  the 
exclusiveness  which  have  so  long  deformed  and  de- 
graded Christendom." 

Is  not  the  unity  of  the  seashore  sands,  pictured  by 
Bishop  Kandolph,  the  great  impediment  to  the  advance 
of  the  tidal  wave  of  charity,  mentioned  by  Dr.  Hoge  ? 

Does  not  the  question  of  the  disciples,  "Who  shall 
be  greatest  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven?"  still  animate 
the  divisions  which  have  widened  ever  since  impetu- 


Press  Comments.  117 


ous,  sensitive  Peter  and  Paul  and  James  had  their  dif- 
ferences ? 

Real  unity  cannot  exist  without  charity ;  charity  is 
the  child  of  humility — the  thinking  of  one's  self  not 
more  highly  than  one  ought  to  think.  "Except  ye  be- 
come as  httle  children,  ye  cannot  enter  the  kingdom  of 
heaven." 

The  more  rapidly  the  churches  tear  away  the  bar- 
riers which  divide  them  in  their  progress  in  the  same 
direction,  the  wider  will  become  their  pathway  and  the 
sooner  will  they  reach  the  broad  plane 

' '  where  spirits  blend ; 

Where  friend  holds  fellowship  with  friend. 
Though  sundered  far,  by  faith  they  meet 
Around  one  common  mercy  seat." 


The  following  notices  appeared  in  the  religious  press  of 
the  city: 

[From  the  Central  Presbyterian  of  March  5,  1890.] 

Br.  Hoge's  Pastorate. 

COMMEMOKATION  OF  THE  FOKTY-FIFTH  ANNIVEKSARY. 

pME  months  ago  the  congregation  of  the  Second 
Presb\i:erian  Church  of  this  city  determined  to 
commemorate  on  the  27th  of  February  the  forty-fifth 


118  Commemorative  Services. 


anniversary  of  their  pastor's  work,  and  express  in  some 
public  way  their  appreciation  of  liis  long  and  faithful 
services.  The  church  was  organized  under  Dr.  Hoge's 
labors  soon  after  he  entered  the  ministry.  It  has 
never  had  any  other  pastor  and  he  has  never  had  any 
other  charge.  Although  he  has  frequently  been  called 
to  other  places,  North  and  South,  and  received  most 
tempting  offers,  he  has  preferred  to  remain  "with  the 
people  among  whom  he  commenced  his  labors.  The 
church  has  groT\Ti  constantly,  and  Dr.  Hoge's  ministry 
and  preaching  have  increased  in  popularity  and  influ- 
ence every  year  from  the  beginning. 

Christians  of  all  denominations  attend  his  preach- 
ing, and  the  movement  to  celebrate  this  anniversary 
was  most  cordially  seconded,  not  only  by  all  the  Pres- 
byterian churches  of  the  city,  but  also  by  Episcopa- 
lians, Methodists,  Baptists  and  others.  Distinguished 
ministers  of  these  different  churches  agreed  to  take 
part  in  the  celebration,  which  was  arranged  for  last 
Thursday  evening,  and  was  held  at  the  Mozart  Acad- 
emy of  Music. 

Long  before  the  hour  appointed  hundreds  had  as- 
sembled, and  in  a  few  moments  after  the  doors  were 
opened  the  house  was  filled  to  its  utmost  capacity. 
There  were  assembled  fully  two  thousand  people,  and 


Press  Comments.  119 


many  persons  found  it  impossible  to  get  even  stand- 
ing room. 

Then  followed  the  addresses  as  announced  in  the 
programme.  Each  address  was  about  fifteen  minutes 
in  length.  It  is  seldom  that  any  audience  has  the  op- 
portunity of  hearing  five  such  beautiful  and  eloquent 
speeches.  We  would  be  glad  to  report  each  one  in 
full,  but  this  our  space  mil  not  allow. 

The  gentlemen  who  introduced  the  speakers  per- 
formed their  part  to  perfection. 

Dr.  Hall,  Bishop  Randolph,  Bishop  Wilson  and 
Dr.  Curry  are  among  the  most  distinguished  ministers 
of  the  churches  which  they  represented  on  the  occa- 
sion, and  each  one  said  what  was  most  befitting  his 
position. 

Dr.  Kerr,  as  the  representative  of  the  Southern 
Presbyterian  Church,  made  the  last  of  these  admirable 
addresses. 

After  the  close  of  the  exercises  at  the  Mozart,  there 
was  a  grand  reception  at  the  church  and  lecture-room, 
where  refreshments  were  served  in  handsome  style,  and 
where  Dr.  Hoge  received  his  friends. 


120  Commemorative  Services. 


The  ladies  who  had  charge  of  this  part  of  the  en- 
tertainment had  arranged  to  have  the  lecture-room 
beautifully  decorated,  and  to  provide  everything  that 
could  add  to  the  interest  of  the  occasion.  The  music 
from  a  very  large  choir,  well  practiced  and  skilled  in 
their  charming  art,  was  a  feature  of  the  celebration 
that  deserves  special  mention. 


[From  the  Southern  Churchman  of  Marcli  6,  1890.] 

N  last  Thursday  night  there  was  an  outpouring 
of  Kichmond  people  to  commemorate  the  forty- 
five  completed  years  of  the  pastorate  of  Eev.  Dr. 
Hoge.  In  honoring  him  they  did  honor  to  themselves. 
The  various  denominations  of  Christian  people  were 
there;  Presb}H:erians,  Baptists  and  Methodists  had 
words  of  commendation  for  this  beloved  pastor.  "We 
have  not  room  to  reproduce  all  the  words  spoken,  or 
the  modest  and  Christian  reply  Dr.  Hoge  made.  As 
an  illustration  of  the  times,  we  give  extracts  fi'om  the 
address  of  Bishop  Eandolph,  as  reported  in  the  Eich- 
mond  Times. 


Press  Comments.  121 


[From  the  Religious  Herald  of  13tli  March,  1890.] 

(OTHING  has  ever  occurred  in  tliis  State  to  equal 
the  recent  ovation  tendered  Dr.  Hoge  on  his 
forty -fifth  anniversary  as  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  of  this  city. 

What  is  the  secret  of  the  Doctor's  marvelous  suc- 
cess ?  We  wiU  begin  with  the  well-known  fact  that  he 
has  been  a  close  and  painstaking  student  through  all 
these  forty-five  years.  While  he  has  been  all  that  time 
a  faithful  and  diligent  pastor,  looking  closely  after  every 
family  connected  with  his  great  congregation,  he  has 
made  it  a  point  never  to  neglect  pulpit  preparation. 
Often  when  he  has  had  to  give  his  time  to  other  en- 
gagements he  has  worked  until  daybreak  on  Sunday 
rather  than  preach  an  old  sermon  or  enter  his  pulpit 
with  one  upon  which  he  had  not  done  his  best.  This 
thorough  preparation  has  kept  up  the  interest  on  the 
part  of  the  public  in  his  preaching  and  kept  his  pews 
filled,  often  crowded.  He  has  proven  that  if  a  preacher 
will  all  the  time  give  the  people  something  worth  hear- 
ing there  will  be  no  lack  of  hearers. 

Dr.  Hoge  is  not  a  sensational  preacher.  He  preaches 
in  a  plain  way  the  plain  teachings  of  God's  word.     He 


122  COMMEMORATIYE  SeKVICES. 


loves  to  dwell  upon  the  great  doctrines  of  revelation, 
and  to  bring  aU  his  marvelous  power  to  illustrate  and 
enforce  them.  No  man  among  us  has  better  proven 
that,  after  aU,  the  things  that  have  the  greatest  drawing 
power  are  the  great  practical  themes  of  the  Bible  which 
are  embraced  in  what  is  known  as  the  old  theology.  As 
long  as  men  are  burdened  mth  a  sense  of  sin — weary 
and  heavy  laden — as  long  as  rest  from  the  burden  and 
guilt  of  sin  is  to  be  found  only  in  Christ  as  the  full  and 
complete  Saviour,  so  long  this  kind  of  preaching  will 
attract  and  hold  the  sinning,  sorrowing  multitudes  of 
earth  as  nothing  else  can. 

Dr.  Hoge's  wise  and  conservative  course  in  the  pas- 
torate has  doubtless  had  much  to  do  with  his  holding 
so  long  the  affections  of  his  people.  There  has  not 
been,  w^e  are  told,  during  all  these  forty-five  years,  an 
impleasant  word  between  the  pastor  and  any  member 
of  his  flock.  Without  a  jar  even  pastor  and  people 
have  worked  lovingly  together.  He  has  studied  human 
nature  to  advantage  and  learned  how  to  lead  without 
seeming  to  lead.  Often  pastors  take  part  in  contro- 
versies which  spring  up  in  their  churches  and  say 
and  do  things  which  weaken  their  influence,  when  they 
might  have  as  well  kept  aloof  from  all  such  entangle- 


Press  Comments.  123 


ments,  aud  thus  have  grown  all  the  more  in  the  affec- 
tions of  their  churches. 

Dr.  Hoge  has  been  the  more  appreciated  by  his 
church  because  of  his  readiness  to  aid  his  brethren  of 
other  churches.  He  has  done  his  full  part  in  helping 
other  pastors.  Often  he  has  been  called  to  supply 
other  pulpits  in  this  city  and  in  other  cities,  and  to 
speak  on  occasions  of  general  and  special  interest,  here 
and  there,  but  we  have  never  heard  of  his  declining 
to  accept  such  a  call  when  it  was  possible  for  him 
to  accept  it. 

One  of  Whitefield's  eulogists  said  of  him,  "  If  ever 
philanthropy  burned  in  a  human  heart  with  pure  and 
intense  flame  it  was  in  the  heart  of  George  Whitefield. 
He  lived  and  toiled  not  for  self,  but  for  his  dying  fellow- 
men."  And  the  same  may  be  claimed  for  Moses  D. 
Hoge,  and  here  better  than  anywhere  else  we  find  the 
hidings  of  his  power.  He  has  had  the  sympathy  of 
his  church  and  community  because  of  his  readiness  to 
reach  out  a  helping  hand  to  all  whom  he  could  help. 

It  is  a  great  mistake  some  churches  make  in  count- 
ing as  a  loss  to  them  the  time  spent  by  their  pastors 
in  helping  other  churches — in  attending  general  meet- 
ings and  special  ser^dces  outside  of  their  own  imme- 
diate   pastorate — iu    taking   an    occasional   vacation. 


124  Commemorative  Seryices. 


"Whatever  a  pastor  does  wisely  and  well  in  sucli  ways 
tells  with  great  effect  on  his  own  ministry  in  his  own 
particular  charge.  Dr.  Hoge  has  been  all  the  more 
useful  at  home  for  the  many  excursions  he  has  taken 
from  home,  including,  of  course,  his  many  visits  to 
other  lands  and  his  rambles  through  other  continents. 

But  to  know  the  secret  of  Dr.  Hoge's  long  pastorate 
one  must  go  further  still  and  take  into  account  his  mar- 
velous power  of  analysis,  his  mighty  sweep  of  imagina- 
tion, his  chaste  and  finished  culture,  his  fine  physique, 
his  mastery  of  himself,  and  his  fascinating  eloquence. 
When  at  his  best  his  trumpet  peals  stir  the  heart  and 
sway  the  judgment,  and  sweep  every  power  of  heart 
and  head. 

This  writer  can  never  forget  his  first  Sunday  in 
Richmond.  He  came  a  timid  country  youth  to  Rich- 
mond College.  On  that  first  Sunday  afternoon  he  went 
to  hear  Dr.  Hoge,  and  he  has  been  doing  the  same 
thing  ever  since  when  he  could  well  do  so. 

It  is  said  that  no  man  ever  preached  to  so  many 
Baptist  preachers  as  this  Presbyterian  Doctor.  For 
forty-five  years  the  ministerial  students  of  Richmond 
College  have  been  much  given  to  attending  his  after- 
noon services,  and  scores  of  them  are  the  better  preach- 
ers because  while  at  college  they  enjoyed  this  privilege. 


Press  Comments.  125 


In  their  name  and  behalf,  and  speaking  for  multitudes 
more  of  our  persuasion,  we  tender  Dr.  Hoge  congratu- 
lations and  best  wishes.  May  many  more  years  yet  be 
given  him,  and  may  his  power  for  good  increase  even  to 
his  last  day  on  earth. 


Editorials  of  Hke  tenor  appeared  in  the  New  York 
Evangelist,  the  New  York  Observer,  the  Philadeljyhia 
Preshyterian,  the  Presbyterian  Journal,  of  Philadelphia, 
the  Chicago  Interior,  the  North  Carolina  Presbyterian^ 
and  in  other  religious  and  secular  papers. 


I^etter5  of  C^op^^ratulatiop. 


[From  Key.  "Weluam  Johnston,  D.  D.,  Belfast^  Ireland.] 

DuNEDiN,  Belfast,  Ireland,  I^eb.  Idth,  1890. 
Messrs.  C.  E.  Barksdale,  W.  W.  Henry,  and  M.  M.  Gilliam. 

Gentlemen  :  I  am  in  receipt  of  your  very  kind  and  cor- 
dial invitation  to  attend  your  meeting  on  the  27th,  to  con- 
gratulate your  worthy  pastor,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hoge,  on  the 
forty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  installation  in  Richmond,  and 
thank  you  for  the  compliment  which  you  have  thus  paid  to 
me  and  our  Irish  Presbyterian  Church. 

\Vhilst  not  able  to  be  vrith  you  at  your  assemblage,  I 
join  most  cordially  with  3'ou  in  devout  thanksgiving  that 
you  enjoy  the  pastorate  of  such  a  man  as  Dr.  Hoge,  and 
that  he  is  spared  to  labor  so  long  in  the  vineyard  and  en- 
abled with  vigor  of  mind  and  body  to  preach  the  glorious 
gospel  of  the  grace  of  God. 

In  common  with  many  more  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic, 
I  regard  Dr.  Hoge  as  the  model  of  a  minister,  a  gentleman 
and  a  Chi-istian;  and  consider  it  a  high  privilege  to  have 
made  his  acquaintance  and  heard  from  his  lo\ing  lips  the 
ministr}^  of  reconciliation. 

The  Irish  Presb}i:erian  Church  is  to  celebrate  the  jubilee 
of  our  General  Assembly  on  the  17th  of  July  next,  and  if  Dr. 
Hoge  will  kindly  arrange  another  tour  to  Ireland  and  gTace 
our  meeting  with  his  presence,  no  man  will  be  more  wel- 
come. 


128  Commemorative  Services. 


Wishing  you  a  very  pleasant  and  profitable  celebration, 
and  uniting  with  you  in  the  prayer  that  Dr.  Hoge  may,  in 
the  good  providence  of  God,  enjoy  a  prolonged  lease  of  life 
and  blessedness,  I  remain  yours  very  gratefully, 

"Wnj.TAM  Johnston. 


[From  Eey.  Matthew  Keek,  Cork,  Ireland.'] 

Clonaed,  Cork,  Ireland,  Feb.  V^th,  1890. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Hoge  :  Accept  my  sincere  thanks  for  think- 
ing of  me  at  such  a  time.  It  would  give  me  great  pleasure 
to  be  present  with  you  on  the  27th,  if  I  had  wings,  and  to 
join  in  the  rejoicings  and  congxatulations  of  the  occasion. 

God  has  been  good  to  you  in  spaiing  you  so  long  in  ac- 
tive service  and  giving  you  the  confidence  and  very  warm 
affection  of  your  devoted  people.  I  trust  that  years  of  fuU 
work  are  yet  before  you ;  only  spare  yourself  a  little  more. 
My  wife  and  daughters  join  heartily  with  me  in  congratula- 
tions and  prayers. 

Believe  me  to  be  very  sincerely  yours, 

Matthew  Kerr. 


[From  Eev.  Dk.  Stoees,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.] 

80  PiERREPONT  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  T., 
January  10,  1890. 
Dear  Christian  Friends  :  I  wish  with  aU  my  heart  that 
it  was  in  my  power  to  be  with  you  on  the  approaching  forty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  installation  of  your  beloved  pastor 
and  my  honored  friend,  Dr.  Hoge,  but  my  engagements  at 


Letters  of  Congratulation.  129 


home  and  in  Boston  are  now  exacting,  and  therefore  I  can- 
not leave  to  join  with  you  personally  on  that  delightful  occa- 
sion. I  can  only  send  you  my  sincere  and  warm  congratu- 
lations on  having  been  permitted  so  long  to  enjoy  a  ministry 
so  full  of  the  power,  the  beauty,  and  the  spirit  of  the  gospel. 
And  I  cannot  forbear  to  add  my  congratulations  to  my  dear 
and  honored  brother  in  the  faith  and  ser\dce  of  the  Master, 
that  God  has  so  preserved  and  blessed  him,  keeping  his  mind 
in  the  divine  hght,  keeping  his  heart  fresh  and  full,  and  per- 
mitting him  to  see  the  work  of  the  Lord  ever  prospering  in 
his  hands.  It  is  more  than  forty  years,  I  think,  since  I  had 
the  pleasure  of  preaching  in  your  pulpit,  by  the  kind  invita- 
tion of  Dr.  Hoge,  whose  welcome  to  me  as  a  stranger  visit- 
ing Kichmond  I  have  never  forgotten.  Very  few,  if  any, 
whom  I  then  addressed  are  still  with  you,  but  it  is  good  to 
know  that  the  same  gospel  is  with  us  all,  and  the  same 
divine  grace,  and  that  they  will  be  with  us  while  life  goes 
on,  both  here  and  above.  May  the  effect  of  them  only  more 
clearly  and  gloriously  appear  in  our  personal  Hfe,  and  in  our 
churches,  imtil  we  are  counted  worthy  to  be  admitted  to 
"the  church  of  the  first-born,  which  are  wi'itten  in  heaven." 
With  most  hearty  thanks  for  your  kind  invitation,  and 
most  sincere  and  earnest  regrets  that  I  cannot  be  with  you 
in  February,  and  with  affectionate  wishes  and  hopes  for  the 
ever-enlarging  prosperity  of  your  church,  I  am,  with  highest 
regards. 

Faithfully  yours, 

R.  S.  Stores. 

Messrs.  C.  E.  Barksdale,  W.  Wirt  Henry,  Marshall  M. 

GlLLLLM. 


130  COMMEMOEATIVE  SeKVICES. 


[From  George  M.  Atwatek,  Esq.] 

RocK-EiMMON,  Springfield,  Mass.,  Feb.  15th,  1890. 
Gentlemen:  I  have  read  witli  profound  interest  and 
pleasure  your  in\dtation  to  attend  a  meeting  to  be  held  Feb- 
ruary 27th,  in  celebration  of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of 
the  iQstallation  of  the  Kev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  as 
pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Eichmond,  Va. 
I  hope  to  be  able  to  witness  the  tribute  to  be  paid  to  him 
on  that  occasion,  and  by  my  presence  to  assure  Dr.  Hoge 
and  yourselves  of  my  continued  remembrance. 
Very  sincerely  yours, 

George  M.  Atwater. 
Messrs.  C.  E.  Barksdale,  W.  W.  Henry,  IVIarshall  M.  Gil- 
liam, Committee  of  Session  Second  Presbyterian  Churchy 
Richmond,  Ya. 


[From  Richard  Lathers,  Esq.,  JVew  To?'k.] 

248  Central  Park,  West  N.  Y.,  Feb.  7,  1890. 
Messrs.  C.  E.  Barksdale,  W.  W.  Henry,  M.  M.  Gilliam. 

Dear  Sirs:  I  accept  vdth  pleasure  your  polite  invita- 
tion to  attend  the  meeting  on  the  27th  prox.  in  celebra- 
tion of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  installation  of  the 
Eev.  Dr.  Hoge,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Chm'ch  in  your  city.  It  wiU  afford  me  peculiar 
gratification  to  join  you  in  doing  honor  to  so  venerable  and 
distinguished  a  divine,  whose  piety  and  culture  in  his  holy 
calling  are  only  equalled  by  his  preeminent  zeal  and  patriot- 
ism as  a  Southern  gentleman. 

I  am,  gentlemen,  yours  truly,  Eichard  Lathers. 


Letters  of  Congratulation.  131 


[From  Hon.  Thos.  F.  Bataed.] 

Wilmington,  Del.,  Feb.  Uth,  1890. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Hoge  :  A  card  of  invitation  to  attend  the 
celebration  of  -the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  your  installation 
as  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  in  Eichmond, 
on  the  27th  of  this  month,  has  been  kindly  sent  me. 

If  it  were  possible,  I  would  make  the  journey,  merely  to 
testify  my  respect  for  you,  and  my  appreciation  of  the  holy 
dedication  you  have  made  of  your  life  and  faculties. 

Sm^ely  a  man  should  sometimes  be  reminded  of  his  well- 
doing, as  so  often  he  is  reminded  of  his  ill-doing,  and  at  this 
milestone  in  your  good  and  true  and  honorable  hf e,  I  trust 
your  friends  will  gather  and  take  your  hands  and  speak  to 
you  the  warm  words  of  love  and  praise  which  so  many  feel 
and  which  you  simply  deserve. 

I  trust  you  will  receive  great  happiness  in  the  expression 
of  affection  which  the  anniversary  will  cause.  You  have 
worked  for  love  ;  pray  now  enjoy  its  harvest. 

Your  half  centuiy  will  soon  be  rounded  out,  and  then  I 
hope  another  gathering  of  hearts  and  hands  will  cheer  you 
and  be  cheered  by  you.     "  May  I  be  there  to  see  "  ! 
Sincerely  and  respectfully  yours, 

T.  F.  Bayard. 


[From  A.  D.  F.  Kandolph,  Esq.,  New  York.] 

124  West  Twenty-Second  St.,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  22,  1890. 
Dear  Sirs:  I  have  to  thank  you  for  an  in\atation  to  the 
services  of  the  27th  inst.,  to  commemorate  the  forty-fifth  an- 
niversary of  the  installation  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hoge  as  pastor 
of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Chm'ch  of  Eichmond. 


132  Commemorative  Seryices. 


While  much  regretting  my  inability  to  be  present  on 
that  occasion,  permit  me  to  express  the  satisfaction  your 
annoimcement  has  given  me,  especially  at  a  time  when  the 
church  and  the  pastor  as  a  developing  and  conserving  power 
are  too  often  overlooked  or  forgotten.  In  your  own  beauti- 
ful city,  as  everywhere  else,  it  is  the  church  and  its  services 
that  both  withstand  all  the  changes  of  the  changing  years, 
and  "  without  observation "  unremittingly  prosecutes  its 
heavenly  mission.  While  it  is  not  within  the  province  of 
human  reason  to  measure  what  your  own  church  has  accom- 
phshed  during  this  pastorate  of  nearly  half  a  centmy  for  the 
ever  present  needs  and  supreme  good  of  man,  yet  in  the  con- 
templation of  such  a  history  one  may  well  ask,  ^Miat  would 
have  been  the  loss  to  society  and  the  state  if  this  church 
had  never  been  organized,  your  pastor  never  installed? 
The  world  builds  its  monuments  of  bronze  or  marble,  and 
sets  them  in  the  public  places ;  those  of  the  chiu'ch  are 
planted  in  human  hearts.  Each  monument  is  a  recognition 
of  a  service  performed  in  the  interest  of  others ;  one  in  the 
presence  of  all  the  people,  on  battle  fields,  or  in  legislative 
halls ;  the  other  in  the  quiet  sanctuaiy  of  God,  in  the  cham- 
bers of  sickness  or  sorrow,  or  in  the  presence  of  the  dead; 
and  it  is  the  nearness  of  this  latter  service  to  all  that  is  best 
and  noblest  in  us  that  wins  for  every  faithful  pastor  a  love 
and  homage  of  which  the  inconsiderate  world  knows  nothing, 
though  it  be  of  the  highest  the  heart  can  bestow.  Again 
thanking  you  for  the  kind  remembrance  of  me  in  connection 
with  this  occasion, 

I  am,  dear  sirs,  yours  faithfully, 

A.  D.  F.  Randolph. 
Messrs.  C.  R.  Baeksdale,  W.  W.  Heney,  and  M.  M.  Gilliam. 


Letters  of  Congratulation.  133 


[From  Hon.  William  E.  Dodge,  JS'ew  York.] 

262  Madison  Avenue,  New  York,  Mb.  25th,  1890. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Hoge  :  I  congTatulate  you  "with  all  my  heart 
on  the  long,  useful  and  most  honorable  term  of  service  in 
the  noblest  and  highest  work  ever  given  to  man  to  do.  But 
I  congratulate  yom-  people  and  beautiful  city  more.  Your 
example  of  consecrated,  unselfish  ministration  through  all 
these  unbroken  years  ;  youi*  eloquent,  effective  preaching 
and  noble  example  of  sanctified  citizenship  have  been  a 
blessing  and  benediction  beyond  anything  words  can  ex- 
press. It  is  deUghtf ul  to  know  they  are  so  fully  appreciated. 
It  is  a  great  thing  to  hold  steadfast  to  one  charge  so  long, 
and  to  have  impressed  one's  self  for  good  upon  almost  two 
generations  and  upon  a  whole  community.  God  bless  you 
and  spare  you  to  us  all  for  manj  long  years  still.  Mrs. 
Dodge  joins  with  me  in  affection  and  high  esteem. 
Most  sincerely  youi's, 

W.  E.  Dodge. 


[From  J).  Hayes  Agnew,  M.  D.,  PMladelpJiia.] 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sixteenth  and  Walnut  Streets, 
February  12,  1890. 
To  Messrs.  C.  K.  Barksdale,  W.  W.  Henry,  ^Iarshall  M. 
Gilliam,  Committee  of  Session. 
Gentlemen  :  I  regret  that  it  will  be  out  of  my  power  to 
accept  your  kind  invitation  to  be  present  on  the  occasion  of 
the  celebration  of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  installa- 
tion of  the  Rev.  Moses  D.  Hoge  as  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbjiierian  Church  of  Richmond. 


134  Commemorative  Services. 


Dr.  Hoge  embodies,  more  than  any  man  I  know,  the 
quahties  of  a  great  preacher,  a  pure-minded  citizen,  a 
courtly  gentleman,  and  a  genial  friend.  It  is  my  prayer 
that  he  may  long  be  spared  to  minister  to  his  people  in 
spiritual  things,  to  mingle  with  them  in  their  joys,  and  to 
comfort  them  in  their  sorrows. 

With  sentiments  of  sincere  regard,  very  truly  yours, 

D.  Hayes  Agnew. 

Mrs.  Agnew  joins  me  in  love  to  Dr.  Hoge. 


[From  Rev.  B.  M.  Pai^mer,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Mw  Orleans,  La.] 
New  Orleans,  La.,  Jan.  15,  1890. 
Messrs.  C.  E.  Barksdale,  W.  W.  Henry,  and  M.  M.  Gilliam. 

Dear  Brethren  :  It  would  give  me  inexpressible  pleasure 
to  testify  my  respect  and  affection  for  your  pastor.  Dr.  Hoge, 
on  the  interesting  occasion  you  propose  in  his  honor.  If  I 
forego  that  pleasure,  it  is  more  my  loss  than  either  yours  or 
his.  I  would  come  if  I  dared  to  run  the  hazard  of  travel 
and  change  of  climate  in  my  present  condition  of  health. 
Nothing  deters  me  from  accepting  your  kind  invitation  but 
this  consideration  of  health — an  invitation  which  Dr.  Hoge 
enforces  in  terms  which  make  it  one  of  the  sweetest  per- 
sonal tributes  I  have  ever  received. 

May  God  spare  him  long  to  you  and  to  the  church  at 
large,  that  when  called  hence  in  a  green  old  age  he  may  re- 
ceive a  crown  of  glory  almost  too  heavy  for  him  to  wear. 
Very  respectfully  and  truly  yours, 

B.  M.  Palmer. 


Letters  of  Congratulation.  135 


[From'Ri:y.  Joseph  R.  Wilson,  D.  D.,  CkcrksviUe,  Tennessee.] 
Clarksville,  Tenn.,  February  18,  1890. 
Messrs.  C.  R.  Baeksdale,  and  others,  Committee  of  Session. 

Gentlemen:  Your  favor  of  the  4th  instant,  inviting  me 
to  a  celebration  of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary'  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Hoge's  installation  as  pastor  of  the  church  which  you  so 
pleasingly  represent,  reached  me  in  due  time. 

AAHiilst  I  very  well  understand  that  no  formal  reply  is  ex- 
pected on  the  part  of  those  to  whom  this  courtesy  is  extend- 
ed, yet,  inasmuch  as  it  will  not  be  possible  for  me  to  be  pre- 
sent on  an  occasion  so  interesting,  I  find  it  impossible  to 
refrain  from  doing  myself  the  pleasure  of  expressing  by 
letter  the  sentiments  I  have  long  entertained  towards 
the  noble  Christian  gentleman  and  great  gospel  preacher 
whom  you  and  your  fellow-churchmen  are  dehghted  to 
honor.  And  this  I  feel  that  I  am  the  more  free  to  do  by 
reason  of  the  long  and  close  friendship  which  has  united  me 
to  him,  and  which  continues  to  be  my  pride  and  my  joy. 
Not  to  myself  alone,  but  to  the  entire  body  of  his  ministe- 
rial brethren  throughout  the  church,  the  name  of  Moses  D. 
Hoge  is  the  synonym  of  all  that  is  elevated  in  character,  or 
impressive  in  orators',  or  true  in  Christian  life.  He  combines 
within  himself  whatsoever  is  deemed  worthy  of  applause  by 
good  men  everywhere.  And  may  he  long  continue,  just 
where  he  is,  to  herald  that  great  salvation  to  which,  for  so 
many  years,  he  has  devoted  the  fervor  of  his  rare  eloquence. 

Sincerely  and  fraternally,  yours  in  Chi-ist, 

Joseph  R.  Wilson. 


136  Commemorative  Services. 


[From  VnoF.  John  B.  Mixoe,  LL.  D.,  University  of  Virginia.] 

Law  Depaktment,  University  of  Virginia, 
February,  14,  1890. 

Dear  Mr.  Gilll\m:  I  received  this  morning  the  card  of 
invitation  from  the  "  Committee  of  Session  "  to  attend  the 
meeting  to  be  held  on  the  27th  inst.  in  celebration  of  the 
forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  installation  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Hoge  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Rich- 
mond, and  sincerely  regret  my  inability  to  attend  it. 

There  is  no  one  to  whom  I  would  more  gladly  pay  any 
tribute  of  respect  and  veneration  in  my  power  than  the  hon- 
ored gentleman  whose  long  and  distinguished  pastorate  the 
meeting  is  designed  to  commemorate.  His  great  abilities, 
which  have  been  so  universally  dedicated  to  the  service  of 
his  Divine  Master,  command  the  admiration  of  his  fellow- 
men;  but  what  is  that  to  the  commendation  which  awaits 
him  from  the  "  excellent  glory "  of  "  well  done,  good  and 
faithful  servant"? 

Pray  present  my  affectionate  regards  to  Dr.  Hoge,  and 
assure  him  that  scarce  his  own  congregation  can  desire 
more  fervently  than  I  that  his  life  and  usefulness  may  yet 
be  prolonged  for  many  years. 

I  am,  dear  Mr.  Gilliam,  very  truly  your  friend, 

John  B.  Minor. 

Marshall  M.  Gilliam,  Esq.,  Richmond,  Va. 


[From  Kev.  Alexant)er  Mabtin,  D.  D.,  Damille,  Va.] 
204  Jefferson  St.,  Danville,  Va.,  Feb.  17,  1890. 
Dear  Sirs  :  The  invitation  to  attend  the  forty-fifth  anni- 
versary of  Dr.  Hoge's  pastorate  was  received  some  days  ago. 


Letters  of  Congratulation.  137 


Believe  me  very  sensible  of  the  kind  attention.  It  would  be 
exceedingly  gratif  jdng  to  me  to  be  present  on  an  occasion  so 
interesting  and  suggestive;  but  the  extreme  illness  of  my 
wife  makes  it  impossible  for  me  to  leave  home.  Some  of 
you  know  the  affectionate  regard  which  I  feel  for  your  hon- 
ored pastor.  He  was  my  pastor  too.  My  father  loved  him 
as  a  son.  May  the  God  of  his  fathers  spare  him  to  you  and 
the  church  at  large  for  many  years  still. 
I  am,  gentlemen,  with  high  esteem. 

Very  truly  yours,  Alexander  Martin. 

To  Messrs.  C.  R.  Barksdale,  W.  W.  Henry,  and  Marshall 

M.  GlLLMM. 


[From  Col.  B.  S.  Ewell.] 

"  EwELL,"  James  City  Co.,  Va.,  February  22,  1890. 
To  the  Committee  of  Session,  Second  Presbyterian  Church, 
Richmond,  Va. 
Gentlemen  :  Having  been  for  some  weeks  affected  by  the 
prevaiHng  epidemic,  I  am  compelled,  most  unwillingly,  to 
deny  myself  the  honor  and  privilege  of  attending  "  the  cele- 
bration of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  installation  or 
the  Rev.  Dr.  M.  D.  Hoge  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyte- 
rian Church."  I  have  private  and  pubHc  reasons  for  uniting 
in  this  tribute  to  the  personal  and  professional  character 
and  worth  of  Dr.  Hoge.  Fifty  years  ago  he  and  I  were 
associated  in  the  Faculty  of  Hampden-Sidney  College,  when 
contact  and  intercourse  soon  ripened  into  friendship  and 
affection.  From  that  time  to  the  present  the  fountain  of 
concord  and  harmony  then  opened  has  never  ceased  to  flow, 
and  is  shared  now  by  our  descendants  to  the  third  genera- 


138  COMMEMOKATIYE  SERVICES. 


tion.  In  all  this  time  lie  has  been  to  me  a  beacon,  a  gmde, 
a  mentor,  a  source  of  comfort  and  tinist.  It  has  been  well 
said,  "  That  the  friendship  of  such  a  man  has  a  power,  pre- 
sent or  absent,  to  Kft  us  above  our  vulgar,  coarse  and  selfish 
influences,  our  tame  habits  of  thought,  and  to  kindle  gener- 
ous aspirations  for  moral  and  mental  excellence."  Of  Dr. 
Hoge's  public  services,  it  may  not  become  me  to  speak.  As  a 
"  soldier  of  the  cross,"  a  successful  leader  of  men  in  the  war 
waged  in  the  defense  of  the  human  race  against  the  "enemy 
of  God  and  man,"  he  is  universally  known.  Before  such 
work,  the  rise  and  fall  of  empires,  and  the  brilliant  victories 
of  military  heroes,  pale  into  insignificance.  It  is  our  duty  to 
do  honor  to  men  who  thus  labor  for  the  best  interests  of 
mankind,  and  is  not  Dr.  Hoge  ^'Primus  inter  pares  "  one  of 
them  ? 

May  state  and  church  long  continue  to  profit  by  the  ser- 
vices and  example  of  a  citizen  and  a  minister  of  the  gospel, 
so  loyal,  so  loving,  so  beloved.     With  great  respect. 

Your  obedient  servant,  B.  S.  Ewell. 


[From'R-Ev.  Chas.  Minnegeeode,  Alexandria,  Va.'\ 

Alexandria,  Va.,  Feb.  24,  1890. 
Eev.  Dr.  Hoge. 

My  Dear  and  Honored  Friend  ;  imy  Brother  in  Christ  : 
I  have  been  waiting  to  respond  to  the  very  kind  invitation 
of  the  committee,  to  attend  the  services  of  the  forth-fifth 
anniversary  of  your  ministry  in  Richmond,  in  the  hope  I 
might  return  a  favorable  answer,  and  one  in  harmony  with 
my  earnest  vdshes.  You  know  there  are  few,  if  any,  who 
rejoice  more  in  God's  blessing  upon  your  labors  and  the 


Letteks  of  Congkatulation.  139 


honorable  record  you  have  in  his  chui'ch  than  myself.  We 
have  been  aUied  too  long,  and  esteemed  and  loved  each 
other  too  dearly,  to  admit  of  any  doubt  now;  and  I  am 
vain  enough  to  hope  that  you  will  miss  me  and  regret 
my  absence  almost  as  I  shall  do.  But,  my  dear  brother, 
it  is  impossible  for  me  to  attend,  not  only  official  engage- 
ments (which  I  might  change  to  another  day  perhaps,  or 
recall  for  sufficient  reason),  but  I  cannot  promise  myself 
or  you  that  I  can  travel  and  change  my  abode  by  that 
time.  I  am  not  well  enough,  and  see  in  this  the  clear  proof 
that  my  duty  is  to  forego  this  pleasure,  and  quietly  stay 
at  home,  thinking  of  you,  being  with  you  in  the  spirit,  not 
only  congi-atulating  you  and  yom^  congregation,  but  praying 
for  you  and  them,  that  God's  blessing  may  rest  upon  you, 
and  your  Hfe  and  strength  be  prolonged  for  many  years. 
God  bless  and  keep  you. 

Tour  loving  brother, 

Charles  Minnegerode. 


[From  Rev.  J.  L.  Bureows,  D.  D.,  Norfolk,  Va.] 

Norfolk,  Va.,  3Iarch  5,  1890. 

Eev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D. 

My  Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Permit  me  to  congratulate 
you  upon  your  reaching  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  your 
ministry  in  Richmond,  and  upon  the  enthusiastic  and  mag- 
nificent celebration  of  the  same,  a  graphic  account  of  which 
I  have  just  read  in  the  columns  of  the  Dispatch.  It  gave  me 
joy  to  learn  of  the  expression  of  gratitude  and  honor  so 
generous  and  so  well  deserved,  and  by  so  many  persons  of 


140  COMMEMORATIYE  SERVICES. 


the  various  divisions  of  "  the  sacramental  host."  You  have 
faii'ly  and  honorably  won  the  high  place  you  hold  in  the  es- 
teem and  confidence  of  devout,  earnest  Christians. 

Will  you  not  allow  me  to  add  one  more  humble  voice  to 
the  feHcitations  so  eloquently  uttered  upon  that  joyous  oc- 
casion, and  to  wish  and  pray  for  you  a  prolongation  of  your 
useful  life,  at  least  so  far  as  to  include  the  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  your  single-hearted  ministry  in  Kichmond  ? 

With  esteem  and  Christian  love,  I  am  sincerely  yours, 

J.  L.  BUEEOWS. 


[From  Hon.  J.  Taylor  EiiLTsoN,  3fayor.] 

Mayor's  OrricE,  Eichmond,  Va.,  Mb.  27,  1890. 
Eev.  Moses  D.  Hoge,  D.  D. 

My  Dear  Sm:  I  beg  leave  to  tender  you  my  heartiest 
congratulations  upon  the  completion  of  your  forty-five 
years  of  service  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
of  this  city.  The  ovation  that  will  be  tendered  you  to-night 
will  be  the  genuine  expression  of  the  love  of  this  people, 
and  Tvdll  be  such  as  was  never  before  accorded  any  citizen  of 
Eichmond.  In  all  the  relations  of  hfe  you  have  ever  been 
loyal  to  the  best  interests  of  the  capital  of  the  Old  Dominion, 
whose  people  are  glad  of  this  opportunity  to  do  you  honor. 
May  the  golden  chain  of  affection  that  binds  you  to  your  fel- 
low-citizens remain  unbroken  for  many  years,  is  the  sincere 
wish  of,  Yours  very  truly, 

J.  Taylor  Ellyson. 


Letters  of  Congratulation.  141 


Letters  were  also  received  from — 

Mr.  and  IMks.  W.  Sachevekal  Coke,  Brookldll  Hall,  Derbyshire,  Eng- 
land. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hlll  Jones,  Highbury  Park  Road,  London. 
Eev.  Dr.  G.  D.  Matthews,  London,  England. 
Mr.  Alexander  Fisken,  Swallow  Cottage,  near  Belfast,  Ireland. 
Mr.  Charles  J.  Johnston,  Greenisland,  near  Belfast,  Ireland. 
John  Gelmour,  Mount  Vernon,  Helensburgh,  Scotland. 
Edwin  D.  Wheelock,  Chicago,  111. 
C.  S.  McFarland,  Boston,  Mass. 
Rev.  Robt.  F.  Sample,  D.  D,  ,  New  York  City. 
Rev.  Henry  M.  Field,  D.  D.,         " 
Mr.  Frederick  Blume,  " 

Mr.  Wm.  p.  Campbell,  " 

Mr.  James  Talcott,  " 

Mr.  John  Sinclair,  " 

Rev.  Thomas  A.  Hoyt,  D.  D.  ,  Philadelphia,  Penn. 
Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  M.  B.  Grier,         "  '« 

Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  R.  M.  Patterson,  "  " 

Rev.  Thornton  M.  NnEN,  D.  D. ,  Dobb's  Ferry,  N.  Y. 
Frank  J.  Mather,  Morristown,  New  Jersey. 
Ed.  R.  Mayer,  M.  D.,  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. 
S.  P.  TowNSEND,  Glyndon,  Md. 
Thomas  H.  Ellis,  Washington  City,  D.  C. 
W.  H.  Selden, 

Beverly  Tucker,  "  " 

Wm.  E.  Tanner,  Duluth,  Minn. 
Mrs.  Ann  L.  Marquess,  Fulton,  Mo. 
Rev.  John  Leyburn,  D.  D.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Rev.  E.  H.  Rutherford,  D.  D.,  Paris,  Ky. 
Rev.  L.  H.  Blanton,  D.  D.,  Richmond,  Ky. 
Rev.  Wm.  Irvine,  Anchorage,  Ky. 
Rev.  T.  D.  Witherspoon,  D.  D.,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Prof.  Addison  Hogue,  Oxford,  Miss. 
Mrs.  E.  p.  Irvine,  Milton,  N.  C. 
Rev.  J.  Henry  Smith,  D.  D.,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 


142  Commemorative  Services. 


Key.  S.  PiiUMEB  Bryan,  Asheville,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  Gen.  T.  J.  Jackson,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Kev.  Wm.  Brown,  D.  D.,  Bay  View,  Fla. 

J.  M.  Mathews,  M.  T>.,  Athens,  Texas. 

John  Randolph  Tucker,  Lexington,  Va. 

Gen.  G.  W.  C.  Lee,   (for  himself  and  Professors  of  the  University,) 

Lexington,  Va. 
Wm.  W.  Smith,  (for  himself  and  Professors  of  the  College,)  President 

Randolph  Macon  College,  Va. 
Gen.  Fitzhugh  Lee,  Lexington,  Va. 
Rev.  J.  B.  Taylor,  D.  D.,  Lexington,  Va. 

Rev.  Richard  McIlwaine,  D.  D.  ,  Hampden-Sidney  College,  Va. 
Prof.  Walter  Blair,  "  "  " 

Prof.  L.  Holladay,  *'  "  " 

Prof.  J.  W.  Mallet,  University  of  Virginia. 
Francis  H.  Smith,  "  " 

Rev.  Henry  C,  Alexander,  D.  D.  ,  Union  Theological  Seminary,  Va. 
Rev.  J.  W.  RosEBRO,  Petersburg,  Va. 
Capt.  J.  N.  Barney,  Fredericksbm-g,  Va. 
Rev.  John  E.  Edwards,  D.  D.  ,  Lynchburg,  Va. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  A.  Kayser,  Staunton,  Va. 
W.  D.  Reynolds,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Rev.  W.  S.  Lacy,  D.  D.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Thomas  J.  Garden,  Prince  Edward,  Va. 
W.  H.  Dunn,  Dunsale,  Va. 
Mrs.  H.  E.  Goode,  Danville,  Va. 
Mrs.  Agntis  W.  Burton,  Danville,  Va. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  Pettus,  Meherrin,  Va. 
Gen.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  R.  Anderson,  Richmond,  Va. 
Col.  Archer  Anderson,  " 

Mrs.  Dr.  T.  G.  Cabell, 
E.  O.  Nolting,  " 

Thomas  Potts,  " 

Wm.  Wesson,  " 

J.  Bell  Bigger,  ' ' 

R.  M.  Hard  AW  AY,  " 

Judge  B.  R.  Wellford,  " 


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Mrs.  Mary  Maxwell,,  Kichmond,  Va. 

Miss  Julla.  S.  Marvln,  "  '  * 

James  E.  Goode,  "  *' 

Col.  Richard  F.  Beirne  {TJie  State),  Eichmond,  Va 

Wm.  Ryan  {TJie  State), 

Edward  Ingle  {The  Times), 

Edward  V.  Valentine, 

Rev.  S.  S.  Lambeth,  D.  D., 

Rev.  T.  G.  Dashiell,  D.  D., 

Rev.  H.  a.  Tupper,  D.  D., 

Rev.  S.  a.  Goodwin,  D.  D., 


As  this  last  page  was  passing  through  the  hands  of  the 
printer,  the  following  appeared  in  The  State  of  the  5th  inst. : 

"Ex-President  Grover  Cleveland,  in  a  recent  personal 
letter  to  a  friend  in  Kichmond,  referred  to  his  regret  at  not 
knowing  about  the  anniversaiy  celebration  of  Dr.  Hoge's  pas- 
torate in  time  to  have  sent  his  congratulations.  He  said  he 
would  be  glad  at  all  times  to  testify  to  his  appreciation  of 
the  value  to  any  community  and  to  the  country  at  large  of 
such  a  citizen  as  Dr.  Hoge." 


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